HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2007
IEEE
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...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2007
IEEE
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...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2007
IEEE
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...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2007
IEEE
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...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2007
IEEE
3D integration technology greatly increases transistor density while providing faster on-chip communication. 3D implementations of processors can simultaneously provide both laten...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2007
IEEE
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...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2007
IEEE
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
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...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
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 ...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
A path confidence estimate indicates the likelihood that the processor is currently fetching correct path instructions. Accurate path confidence prediction is critical for applica...