HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2004
IEEE
Reducing energy consumption has become one of the major challenges in designing future computing systems. This paper proposes a novel idea of using program counters to predict I/O...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2004
IEEE
Branch misprediction penalty consists of two components: the time wasted on mis-speculative execution until the mispredicted branch is resolved and the time to restart the pipelin...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2004
IEEE
Pipeline gating has been proposed for reducing wasted speculative execution due to branch mispredictions. As processors become deeper or wider, pipeline gating becomes more import...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2004
IEEE
For highest performance, a modern microprocessor must be able to determine if an instruction is ready in the same cycle in which it is to be selected for execution. This creates a...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2004
IEEE
This paper proposes and evaluates hardware mechanisms for supporting prescient instruction prefetch--an approach to improving single-threaded application performance by using help...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2005
IEEE
Memory system optimizations have been well studied on single-threaded systems; however, the wide use of simultaneous multithreading (SMT) techniques raises questions over their ef...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2005
IEEE
With the increasing concern of the security on high performance multiprocessor enterprise servers, more and more effort is being invested into defending against various kinds of a...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2005
IEEE
Due to the simulation time of the reference input set, architects often use alternative simulation techniques. Although these alternatives reduce the simulation time, what has not...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2005
IEEE
Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is a widely-used method for energy-efficient computing. In this paper, we present a new intra-task online DVFS scheme for multiple clo...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2005
IEEE
ZettaRAMTM is a new memory technology under development by ZettaCoreTM as a potential replacement for conventional DRAM. The key innovation is replacing the conventional capacitor...