New application-focused system-on-chip platforms motivate new application-specific processors. Configurable and extensible processor architectures offer the efficiency of tuned lo...
Albert Wang, Earl Killian, Dror E. Maydan, Chris R...
METU Object-Oriented DBMS 1 includes the implementation of a database kernel, an object-oriented SQL-like language and a graphical user interface. Kernel functions are divided bet...
Asuman Dogac, Cetin Ozkan, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar...
Energy efficiency is rapidly becoming a first class optimization parameter for modern systems. Caches are critical to the overall performance and thus, modern processors (both hig...
Achieving good performance on a modern machine with a multi-level memory hierarchy, and in particular on a machine with software-managed memories, requires precise tuning of progr...
Manman Ren, Ji Young Park, Mike Houston, Alex Aike...
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...