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IEEEPACT
2002
IEEE
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Effective Compilation Support for Variable Instruction Set Architecture
Traditional compilers perform their code generation tasks based on a fixed, pre-determined instruction set. This paper describes the implementation of a compiler that determines ...
Jack Liu, Timothy Kong, Fred C. Chow
IEEEPACT
2002
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Leakage Energy Management in Cache Hierarchies
Lin Li, Ismail Kadayif, Yuh-Fang Tsai, Narayanan V...
IEEEPACT
2002
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Increasing and Detecting Memory Address Congruence
A static memory reference exhibits a unique property when its dynamic memory addresses are congruent with respect to some non-trivial modulus. Extraction of this congruence inform...
Samuel Larsen, Emmett Witchel, Saman P. Amarasingh...
IEEEPACT
2002
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Integrating Adaptive On-Chip Storage Structures for Reduced Dynamic Power
Energy efficiency in microarchitectures has become a necessity. Significant dynamic energy savings can be realized for adaptive storage structures such as caches, issue queues, ...
Steve Dropsho, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Rajeev Balasu...
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IEEEPACT
2002
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Eliminating Exception Constraints of Java Programs for IA-64
Java exception checks are designed to ensure that any faulting instruction causing a hardware exception does not terminate the program abnormally. These checks, however, impose so...
Kazuaki Ishizaki, Tatsushi Inagaki, Hideaki Komats...
IEEEPACT
2002
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Transparent Threads: Resource Sharing in SMT Processors for High Single-Thread Performance
Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) processors achieve high processor throughput at the expense of single-thread performance. This paper investigates resource allocation policies fo...
Gautham K. Dorai, Donald Yeung
IEEEPACT
2002
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Application Transformations for Energy and Performance-Aware Device Management
Energy conservation without performance degradation is an important goal for battery-operated computers, such as laptops and hand-held assistants. In this paper we determine the p...
Taliver Heath, Eduardo Pinheiro, Jerry Hom, Ulrich...
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IEEEPACT
2002
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
An Evaluation of Data-Parallel Compiler Support for Line-Sweep Applications
Data parallel compilers have long aimed to equal the performance of carefully hand-optimized parallel codes. For tightly-coupled applications based on line sweeps, this goal has b...
Daniel G. Chavarría-Miranda, John M. Mellor...
IEEEPACT
2002
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Workload Design: Selecting Representative Program-Input Pairs
Having a representative workload of the target domain of a microprocessor is extremely important throughout its design. The composition of a workload involves two issues: (i) whic...
Lieven Eeckhout, Hans Vandierendonck, Koenraad De ...
IEEEPACT
2002
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Software Bubbles: Using Predication to Compensate for Aliasing in Software Pipelines
This paper describes a technique for utilizing predication to support software pipelining on EPIC architectures in the presence of dynamic memory aliasing. The essential idea is t...
Benjamin Goldberg, Emily Crutcher, Chad Huneycutt,...