Fetch gating mechanisms have been proposed to gate the processor pipeline to reduce the wasted energy consumption due to wrongpath (i.e. mis-speculated) instructions. These scheme...
Chang Joo Lee, Hyesoon Kim, Onur Mutlu, Yale N. Pa...
High-performance out-of-order processors spend a significant portion of their execution time on the incorrect program path even though they employ aggressive branch prediction al...
Onur Mutlu, Hyesoon Kim, David N. Armstrong, Yale ...
Modern processors attempt to overcome increasing memory latencies by anticipating future references and prefetching those blocks from memory. The behavior and possible negative si...
Natalie D. Enright Jerger, Eric L. Hill, Mikko H. ...
Speculative Multi-Threading (SpMT) can improve single-threaded application performance using the multiple thread contexts available in current processors. We propose a minimal SpM...
Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Haitham Akkary, Tom Holman...
—While computing speed continues increasing rapidly, data-access technology is lagging behind. Data-access delay, not the processor speed, becomes the leading performance bottlen...