HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2004
IEEE
Design of wakeup-free issue queues is becoming desirable due to the increasing complexity associated with broadcast-based instruction wakeup. The effectiveness of most wakeup-free...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2004
IEEE
Low disk throughput is one of the main impediments to improving the performance of data-intensive servers. In this paper, we propose two management techniques for the disk control...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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...