HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2002
IEEE
Configurations of contemporary DRAM memory systems become increasingly complex. A recent study [5] shows that application performance is highly sensitive to choices of configura...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper proposes the use of formal feedback control theory as a way to implement adaptive techniques in the processor architecture. Dynamic thermal management (DTM) is used as ...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2002
IEEE
As the frequency gap between main memory and modern microprocessor grows, the implementation and efficiency of on-chip caches become more important. The growing latency to memory ...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2002
IEEE
Clusters of commodity computers are currently being used to provide the scalability required by severalpopular Internet services. In this paper we evaluate an efficient cluster-b...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2002
IEEE
Cache memories account for a significant fraction of a chip's overall energy dissipation. Recent research advocates using "resizable" caches to exploit cache requir...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2002
IEEE
This work is based on our philosophy of providing interlayer system-level power awareness in computing systems [26, 27]. Here, we couple this approach with our vision of multipart...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2002
IEEE
We propose a low overhead, on-line memory monitoring scheme utilizing a set of novel hardware counters. The counters act like pressure gauges indicating the marginal gain in the n...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2002
IEEE
Thread-Level Speculation (TLS) allows us to automatically parallelize general-purpose programs by supporting parallel execution of threads that might not actually be independent. ...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2002
IEEE
Several studies of speculative execution based on values have reported promising performance potential. However, virtually all microarchitectures in these studies were described i...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper advocates that cache coherence protocols use a bandwidth adaptive approach to adjust to varied system configurations (e.g., number of processors) and workload behaviors...