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ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Maximum benefit from a minimal HTM
A minimal, bounded hardware transactional memory implementation significantly improves synchronization performance when used in an operating system kernel. We add HTM to Linux 2.4...
Owen S. Hofmann, Christopher J. Rossbach, Emmett W...
ISCA
2009
IEEE
158views Hardware» more  ISCA 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Boosting single-thread performance in multi-core systems through fine-grain multi-threading
Industry has shifted towards multi-core designs as we have hit the memory and power walls. However, single thread performance remains of paramount importance since some applicatio...
Carlos Madriles, Pedro López, Josep M. Codi...
DATE
2004
IEEE
177views Hardware» more  DATE 2004»
14 years 14 days ago
Adaptive Prefetching for Multimedia Applications in Embedded Systems
This paper presents a new and simple prefetching mechanism to improve the memory performance of multimedia applications. This method adapts the memory access mechanism to the acce...
Hassan Sbeyti, Smaïl Niar, Lieven Eeckhout
IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Simple Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Neural-Class Branch Prediction
The continual demand for greater performance and growing concerns about the power consumption in highperformance microprocessors make the branch predictor a critical component of ...
Gabriel H. Loh
CF
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A light-weight fairness mechanism for chip multiprocessor memory systems
Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) memory systems suffer from the effects of destructive thread interference. This interference reduces performance predictability because it depends heavil...
Magnus Jahre, Lasse Natvig