HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2005
IEEE
This paper introduces a novel technique which leverages value prediction and multithreading on a simultaneous multithreading processor to achieve higher performance in a single th...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2005
IEEE
In this paper, we study the instruction cache miss behavior of four modern commercial applications (a database workload, TPC-W, SPECjAppServer2002 and SPECweb99). These applicatio...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2005
IEEE
If current technology scaling trends hold, leakage power dissipation will soon become the dominant source of power consumption in high performance processors. Caches, due to the f...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2005
IEEE
Improvements in semiconductor technology now enable Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs). As many future computer systems will use one or more CMPs and support shared memory, such systems ...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2005
IEEE
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) and chip multiprocessing (CMP) both allow a chip to achieve greater throughput, but their relative energy-efficiency and thermal properties are s...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2005
IEEE
Most programs are repetitive, where similar behavior can be seen at different execution times. Proposed on-line systems automatically group these similar intervals of execution in...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2005
IEEE
Memory leaks and memory corruption are two major forms of software bugs that severely threaten system availability and security. According to the US-CERT Vulnerability Notes Datab...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2005
IEEE
A large multi-ported register file is indispensable for exploiting instruction level parallelism (ILP) in today's dynamically scheduled superscalar processors. The number of ...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2005
IEEE
Long-latency loads are critical in today's processors due to the ever-increasing speed gap with memory. Not only do these loads block the execution of dependent instructions,...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2005
IEEE
The issue logic of a superscalar processor dissipates a large amount of static and dynamic power. Furthermore, its power density makes it a hot-spot requiring expensive cooling sy...