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HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Feedback mechanisms for improving probabilistic memory prefetching
This paper presents three techniques for improving the effectiveness of the recently proposed Adaptive Stream Detection (ASD) prefetching mechanism. The ASD prefetcher is a standa...
Ibrahim Hur, Calvin Lin
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Elastic-buffer flow control for on-chip networks
This paper presents elastic buffers (EBs), an efficient flow-control scheme that uses the storage already present in pipelined channels in place of explicit input virtualchannel b...
George Michelogiannakis, James D. Balfour, William...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Hardware-software integrated approaches to defend against software cache-based side channel attacks
Software cache-based side channel attacks present serious threats to modern computer systems. Using caches as a side channel, these attacks are able to derive secret keys used in ...
Jingfei Kong, Onur Aciiçmez, Jean-Pierre Se...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Voltage emergency prediction: Using signatures to reduce operating margins
Inductive noise forces microprocessor designers to sacrifice performance in order to ensure correct and reliable operation of their designs. The possibility of wide fluctuations i...
Vijay Janapa Reddi, Meeta Sharma Gupta, Glenn H. H...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
In-Network Snoop Ordering (INSO): Snoopy coherence on unordered interconnects
Realizing scalable cache coherence in the many-core era comes with a whole new set of constraints and opportunities. It is widely believed that multi-hop, unordered on-chip networ...
Niket Agarwal, Li-Shiuan Peh, Niraj K. Jha
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Techniques for bandwidth-efficient prefetching of linked data structures in hybrid prefetching systems
Linked data structure (LDS) accesses are critical to the performance of many large scale applications. Techniques have been proposed to prefetch such accesses. Unfortunately, many...
Eiman Ebrahimi, Onur Mutlu, Yale N. Patt
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Design and implementation of software-managed caches for multicores with local memory
Heterogeneous multicores, such as Cell BE processors and GPGPUs, typically do not have caches for their accelerator cores because coherence traffic, cache misses, and latencies fr...
Sangmin Seo, Jaejin Lee, Zehra Sura
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Practical off-chip meta-data for temporal memory streaming
Prior research demonstrates that temporal memory streaming and related address-correlating prefetchers improve performance of commercial server workloads though increased memory l...
Thomas F. Wenisch, Michael Ferdman, Anastasia Aila...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Bridging the computation gap between programmable processors and hardwired accelerators
New media and signal processing applications demand ever higher performance while operating within the tight power constraints of mobile devices. A range of hardware implementatio...
Kevin Fan, Manjunath Kudlur, Ganesh S. Dasika, Sco...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
A low-radix and low-diameter 3D interconnection network design
Interconnection plays an important role in performance and power of CMP designs using deep sub-micron technology. The network-on-chip (NoCs) has been proposed as a scalable and hi...
Bo Zhao, Jun Yang 0002, Xiuyi Zhou, Yi Xu, Youtao ...