HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
A challenging issue in today's server systems is to transparently deal with failures and application-imposed requirements for continuous operation. In this paper we address t...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
Although caches for decades have been the backbone of the memory system, the speed gap between CPU and main memory suggests their augmentation with prefetching mechanisms. Recentl...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
To continue to improve processor performance, microarchitects seek to increase the effective instruction level parallelism (ILP) that can be exploited in applications. A fundament...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
We present an active switch architecture to improve the performance of systems connected via system area networks. Our programmable active switches not only flexibly route packets...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
We study the hardware cost of implementing hash-tree based verification of untrusted external memory by a high performance processor. This verification could enable applications s...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
Thread-level speculation provides architectural support to aggressively run hard-to-analyze code in parallel. As speculative tasks run concurrently, they generate unsafe or specul...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
With the constant advances in technology that lead to the increasing of the transistor count and processor frequency, power dissipation is becoming one of the major issues in high...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
Multi-threaded commercial workloads implement many important internet services. Consequently, these workloads are increasingly used to evaluate the performance of uniprocessor and...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2004
IEEE
We investigate coding techniques to reduce the energy consumed by on-chip buses in a microprocessor. We explore several simple coding schemes and simulate them using a modified Si...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2004
IEEE
This paper focuses on generating efficient software pipelined schedules for in-order machines, which we call Converged Trace Schedules. For a candidate loop, we form a string of t...