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BMCBI
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
Fast multi-core based multimodal registration of 2D cross-sections and 3D datasets
Background: Solving bioinformatics tasks often requires extensive computational power. Recent trends in processor architecture combine multiple cores into a single chip to improve...
Michael Scharfe, Rainer Pielot, Falk Schreiber
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Duo-binary circular turbo decoder based on border metric encoding for WiMAX
- This paper presents a duo-binary circular turbo decoder based on border metric encoding. With the proposed method, the memory size for branch memory is reduced by half and the du...
Ji-Hoon Kim, In-Cheol Park
TC
2008
13 years 8 months ago
On-Demand Solution to Minimize I-Cache Leakage Energy with Maintaining Performance
This paper describes a new on-demand wake-up prediction policy for reducing leakage power. The key insight is that branch prediction can be used to selectively wake up only the nee...
Sung Woo Chung, Kevin Skadron
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
CPROB: Checkpoint Processing with Opportunistic Minimal Recovery
—CPR (Checkpoint Processing and Recovery) is a physical register management scheme that supports a larger instruction window and higher average IPC than conventional ROB-style re...
Andrew D. Hilton, Neeraj Eswaran, Amir Roth
ISCA
2007
IEEE
103views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Ginger: control independence using tag rewriting
The negative performance impact of branch mis-predictions can be reduced by exploiting control independence (CI). When a branch mis-predicts, the wrong-path instructions up to the...
Andrew D. Hilton, Amir Roth