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SPDP
1993
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
Architectural Support for Block Transfers in a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor
This paper examines how the performance of a shared-memory multiprocessor can be improved by including hardware support for block transfers. A system similar to the Hector multipr...
Steven J. E. Wilton, Zvonko G. Vranesic
SBACPAD
2004
IEEE
105views Hardware» more  SBACPAD 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Cache Filtering Techniques to Reduce the Negative Impact of Useless Speculative Memory References on Processor Performance
High-performance processors employ aggressive speculation and prefetching techniques to increase performance. Speculative memory references caused by these techniques sometimes br...
Onur Mutlu, Hyesoon Kim, David N. Armstrong, Yale ...
SIGMETRICS
2005
ACM
120views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Automatic measurement of memory hierarchy parameters
The running time of many applications is dominated by the cost of memory operations. To optimize such applications for a given platform, it is necessary to have a detailed knowled...
Kamen Yotov, Keshav Pingali, Paul Stodghill
ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
13 years 10 months ago
Timing local streams: improving timeliness in data prefetching
Data prefetching technique is widely used to bridge the growing performance gap between processor and memory. Numerous prefetching techniques have been proposed to exploit data pa...
Huaiyu Zhu, Yong Chen, Xian-He Sun
ISCA
2002
IEEE
68views Hardware» more  ISCA 2002»
14 years 1 months ago
Timekeeping in the Memory System: Predicting and Optimizing Memory Behavior
Techniques for analyzing and improving memory referencing behavior continue to be important for achieving good overall program performance due to the ever-increasing performance g...
Zhigang Hu, Margaret Martonosi, Stefanos Kaxiras