ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Future chip multiprocessors (CMPs) may have hundreds to thousands of threads competing to access shared resources, and will require quality-of-service (QoS) support to improve sys...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
A high-concurrency transactional memory (TM) implementation needs to track concurrent accesses, buffer speculative updates, and manage conflicts. We present a system, FlexTM (FLE...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
We demonstrate how fine-grained memory protection can be used in support of transactional memory systems: first showing how a software transactional memory system (STM) can be m...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Flash is a widely used storage device that provides high density and low power, appealing properties for general purpose computing. Today, its usual application is in portable spe...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Process variations are poised to significantly degrade performance benefits sought by moving to the next nanoscale technology node. Parameter fluctuations in devices can introd...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
In a chip-multiprocessor (CMP) system, the DRAM system is shared among cores. In a shared DRAM system, requests from a thread can not only delay requests from other threads by cau...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Current state-of-the-art on-chip networks provide efficiency, high throughput, and low latency for one-to-one (unicast) traffic. The presence of one-to-many (multicast) or one-t...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Architectures that exploit control independence (CI) promise to remove in-order fetch bottlenecks, like branch mispredicts, instruction-cache misses and fetch unit stalls, from th...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Instruction-grain program monitoring tools, which check and analyze executing programs at the granularity of individual instructions, are invaluable for quickly detecting bugs and...