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MICRO
1995
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
SPAID: software prefetching in pointer- and call-intensive environments
Software prefetching, typically in the context of numericor loop-intensive benchmarks, has been proposed as one remedy for the performance bottleneck imposed on computer systems b...
Mikko H. Lipasti, William J. Schmidt, Steven R. Ku...
CGO
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Static Identification of Delinquent Loads
The effective use of processor caches is crucial to the performance of applications. It has been shown that cache misses are not evenly distributed throughout a program. In applic...
Vlad-Mihai Panait, Amit Sasturkar, Weng-Fai Wong
VLDB
2004
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
STEPS towards Cache-resident Transaction Processing
Online transaction processing (OLTP) is a multibillion dollar industry with high-end database servers employing state-of-the-art processors to maximize performance. Unfortunately,...
Stavros Harizopoulos, Anastassia Ailamaki
EUROPAR
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Improving Data Cache Performance via Address Correlation: An Upper Bound Study
Address correlation is a technique that links the addresses that reference the same data values. Using a detailed source-code level analysis, a recent study [1] revealed that diffe...
Peng-fei Chuang, Resit Sendag, David J. Lilja
DATE
2008
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Cache Aware Mapping of Streaming Applications on a Multiprocessor System-on-Chip
Efficient use of the memory hierarchy is critical for achieving high performance in a multiprocessor systemon-chip. An external memory that is shared between processors is a bottl...
Arno Moonen, Marco Bekooij, Rene van den Berg, Jef...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
204views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
14 years 11 months ago
Buffering Database Operations for Enhanced Instruction Cache Performance
As more and more query processing work can be done in main memory, memory access is becoming a significant cost component of database operations. Recent database research has show...
Jingren Zhou, Kenneth A. Ross
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
Using Virtual Load/Store Queues (VLSQs) to Reduce the Negative Effects of Reordered Memory Instructions
The use of large instruction windows coupled with aggressive out-oforder and prefetching capabilities has provided significant improvements in processor performance. In this paper...
Aamer Jaleel, Bruce L. Jacob
HPCA
2009
IEEE
15 years 2 days ago
iCFP: Tolerating all-level cache misses in in-order processors
Growing concerns about power have revived interest in in-order pipelines. In-order pipelines sacrifice single-thread performance. Specifically, they do not allow execution to flow...
Andrew D. Hilton, Santosh Nagarakatte, Amir Roth