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HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
LogTM-SE: Decoupling Hardware Transactional Memory from Caches
This paper proposes a hardware transactional memory (HTM) system called LogTM Signature Edition (LogTM-SE). LogTM-SE uses signatures to summarize a transaction's readand writ...
Luke Yen, Jayaram Bobba, Michael R. Marty, Kevin E...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
HARD: Hardware-Assisted Lockset-based Race Detection
The emergence of multicore architectures will lead to an increase in the use of multithreaded applications that are prone to synchronization bugs, such as data races. Software sol...
Pin Zhou, Radu Teodorescu, Yuanyuan Zhou
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
A Memory-Level Parallelism Aware Fetch Policy for SMT Processors
A thread executing on a simultaneous multithreading (SMT) processor that experiences a long-latency load will eventually stall while holding execution resources. Existing long-lat...
Stijn Eyerman, Lieven Eeckhout
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
Concurrent Direct Network Access for Virtual Machine Monitors
This paper presents hardware and software mechanisms to enable concurrent direct network access (CDNA) by operating systems running within a virtual machine monitor. In a conventi...
Jeffrey Shafer, David Carr, Aravind Menon, Scott R...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
Thermal Herding: Microarchitecture Techniques for Controlling Hotspots in High-Performance 3D-Integrated Processors
3D integration technology greatly increases transistor density while providing faster on-chip communication. 3D implementations of processors can simultaneously provide both laten...
Kiran Puttaswamy, Gabriel H. Loh
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
A Burst Scheduling Access Reordering Mechanism
Utilizing the nonuniform latencies of SDRAM devices, access reordering mechanisms alter the sequence of main memory access streams to reduce the observed access latency. Using a r...
Jun Shao, Brian T. Davis
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
Runahead Threads to improve SMT performance
In this paper, we propose Runahead Threads (RaT) as a valuable solution for both reducing resource contention and exploiting memory-level parallelism in Simultaneous Multithreaded...
Tanausú Ramírez, Alex Pajuelo, Olive...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
Fundamental performance constraints in horizontal fusion of in-order cores
A conceptually appealing approach to supporting a broad range of workloads is a system comprising many small cores that can be fused, on demand, into larger cores. We demonstrate ...
Pierre Salverda, Craig B. Zilles
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
PaCo: Probability-based path confidence prediction
A path confidence estimate indicates the likelihood that the processor is currently fetching correct path instructions. Accurate path confidence prediction is critical for applica...
Kshitiz Malik, Mayank Agarwal, Vikram Dhar, Matthe...