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HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Roughness of microarchitectural design topologies and its implications for optimization
Recent advances in statistical inference and machine learning close the divide between simulation and classical optimization, thereby enabling more rigorous and robust microarchit...
Benjamin C. Lee, David M. Brooks
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Fabric convergence implications on systems architecture
Converged fabrics that support data, storage, and cluster networking in a unified fashion are desirable for their cost and manageability advantages. Recent trends towards higher-b...
Kevin Leigh, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Jaspal Sub...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Uncovering hidden loop level parallelism in sequential applications
As multicore systems become the dominant mainstream computing technology, one of the most difficult challenges the industry faces is the software. Applications with large amounts ...
Hongtao Zhong, Mojtaba Mehrara, Steven A. Lieberma...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Serializing instructions in system-intensive workloads: Amdahl's Law strikes again
Serializing instructions (SIs), such as writes to control registers, have many complex dependencies, and are difficult to execute out-of-order (OoO). To avoid unnecessary complexi...
Philip M. Wells, Gurindar S. Sohi
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Amdahl's Law in the multicore era
We apply Amdahl's Law to multicore chips using symmetric cores, asymmetric cores, and dynamic techniques that allows cores to work together on sequential execution. To Amdahl...
Mark D. Hill
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
An OS-based alternative to full hardware coherence on tiled CMPs
The interconnect mechanisms (shared bus or crossbar) used in current chip-multiprocessors (CMPs) are expected to become a bottleneck that prevents these architectures from scaling...
Christian Fensch, Marcelo Cintra
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Performance and power optimization through data compression in Network-on-Chip architectures
The trend towards integrating multiple cores on the same die has accentuated the need for larger on-chip caches. Such large caches are constructed as a multitude of smaller cache ...
Reetuparna Das, Asit K. Mishra, Chrysostomos Nicop...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
C-Oracle: Predictive thermal management for data centers
Designing thermal management policies for today's power-dense server clusters is currently a challenge, since it is difficult to predict the exact temperature and performance...
Luiz Ramos, Ricardo Bianchini
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Cluster-level feedback power control for performance optimization
Power control is becoming a key challenge for effectively operating a modern data center. In addition to reducing operating costs, precisely controlling power consumption is an es...
Xiaorui Wang, Ming Chen
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
System level analysis of fast, per-core DVFS using on-chip switching regulators
Portable, embedded systems place ever-increasing demands on high-performance, low-power microprocessor design. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is a well-known techniq...
Wonyoung Kim, Meeta Sharma Gupta, Gu-Yeon Wei, Dav...