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CGO
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Physical Experimentation with Prefetching Helper Threads on Intel's Hyper-Threaded Processors
Pre-execution techniques have received much attention as an effective way of prefetching cache blocks to tolerate the everincreasing memory latency. A number of pre-execution tech...
Dongkeun Kim, Shih-Wei Liao, Perry H. Wang, Juan d...
IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Design and Implementation of a Compiler Framework for Helper Threading on Multi-core Processors
Helper threading is a technique that utilizes a second core or logical processor in a multi-threaded system to improve the performance of the main thread. A helper thread executes...
Yonghong Song, Spiros Kalogeropulos, Partha Tiruma...
ICS
2007
Tsinghua U.
14 years 6 months ago
Optimization of data prefetch helper threads with path-expression based statistical modeling
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow