ISPASS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Until very recently, microprocessor designs were computation-centric. On-chip communication was frequently ignored. This was because of fast, single-cycle on-chip communication. T...
ISPASS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Many workload characterization studies depend on accurate measurements of the cost of executing a piece of code. Often these measurements are conducted using infrastructures to ac...
ISPASS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Insights into branch predictor organization and operation can be used in architecture-aware compiler optimizations to improve program performance. Unfortunately, such details are ...
ISPASS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
This paper analyzes the performance of the TRIPS prototype chip’s block predictor. The prototype is the first implementation of the block-atomic TRIPS architecture, wherein the...
ISPASS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
We describe and evaluate two new, independently-applicable power reduction techniques for power management on processors that support dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS):...
ISPASS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Trace-driven simulation of superscalar processors is particularly complicated. The dynamic nature of superscalar processors combined with the static nature of traces can lead to l...
ISPASS
2009
IEEE
2009
IEEE
Machine learning based online performance prediction for runtime parallelization and task scheduling
14 years 2 months ago
—With the emerging many-core paradigm, parallel programming must extend beyond its traditional realm of scientific applications. Converting existing sequential applications as w...
ISPASS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
In temperature-aware design, the presence or absence of a heatsink fundamentally changes the thermal behavior with important design implications. In recent years, chip-level infra...
ISPASS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Advances in network performance and browser technologies, coupled with the ubiquity of internet access and proliferation of users, have lead to the emergence of a new class of web...
ECBS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Security requirements strongly influence the architectural design of complex IT systems in a similar way as other non-functional requirements. Both security engineering as well a...