PPOPP
2012
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
2012
ACM
CPHASH is a concurrent hash table for multicore processors. CPHASH partitions its table across the caches of cores and uses message passing to transfer lookups/inserts to a partit...
CAL
2010
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Memory models like SC, TSO, and PC enforce load-load ordering, requiring that loads from any single thread appear to occur in program order to all other threads. Out-of-order execu...
PARCO
2003
14 years 4 months ago
2003
Three different partial differential equation (PDE) solver kernels are analyzed in respect to cache memory performance on a simulated shared memory computer. The kernels implement...
ISCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
1995
IEEE
Accurate instruction fetch and branch prediction is increasingly important on today’s wide-issue architectures. Fetch prediction is the process of determining the next instructi...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
1998
IEEE
Modern cache designs exploit spatial locality by fetching large blocks of data called cache lines on a cache miss. Subsequent references to words within the same cache line result...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2002
IEEE
Excessive power consumption is widely considered as a major impediment to designing future microprocessors. With the continued scaling down of threshold voltages, the power consum...
ISCA
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2010
IEEE
DRAM vendors have traditionally optimized the cost-perbit metric, often making design decisions that incur energy penalties. A prime example is the overfetch feature in DRAM, wher...
CASES
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2006
ACM
Previous object code compression schemes have employed static and semiadaptive compression algorithms to reduce the size of instruction memory in embedded systems. The suggestion ...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2006
IEEE
The load/store queue (LSQ) is one of the most complex parts of contemporary processors. Its latency is critical for the processor performance and it is usually one of the processo...
DELTA
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2008
IEEE
In the design of embedded systems, especially batterypowered systems, it is important to reduce energy consumption. Cache are now used not only in general-purpose processors but a...