After many years of prefetching research, most commercially available systems support only two types of prefetching: software-directed prefetching and hardware-based prefetchers u...
—Software instrumentation is a powerful and flexible technique for analyzing the dynamic behavior of programs. By inserting extra code in an application, it is possible to study...
Alex Skaletsky, Tevi Devor, Nadav Chachmon, Robert...
—Until recently, most high-end scientific applications have been immune to performance problems caused by NonUniform Memory Access (NUMA). However, current trends in micro-proces...
—In the past ten years, computer architecture has seen a paradigm shift from emphasizing single thread performance to energy efficient, throughput oriented, chip multiprocessors...
David Nellans, Kshitij Sudan, Rajeev Balasubramoni...
Binary instrumentation facilitates the insertion of additional code into an executable in order to observe or modify the executable's behavior. There are two main approaches t...
Michael Laurenzano, Mustafa M. Tikir, Laura Carrin...