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ISPASS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
An Analysis of Microarchitecture Vulnerability to Soft Errors on Simultaneous Multithreaded Architectures
Semiconductor transient faults (i.e. soft errors) have become an increasingly important threat to microprocessor reliability. Simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) architectures exploi...
Wangyuan Zhang, Xin Fu, Tao Li, José A. B. ...
ISPASS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Accelerating Full-System Simulation through Characterizing and Predicting Operating System Performance
The ongoing trend of increasing computer hardware and software complexity has resulted in the increase in complexity and overheads of cycle-accurate processor system simulation, e...
Seongbeom Kim, Fang Liu, Yan Solihin, Ravi R. Iyer...
ISPASS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Last-Touch Correlated Data Streaming
Recent research advocates address-correlating predictors to identify cache block addresses for prefetch. Unfortunately, address-correlating predictors require correlation data sto...
Michael Ferdman, Babak Falsafi
ISPASS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Complete System Power Estimation: A Trickle-Down Approach Based on Performance Events
This paper proposes the use of microprocessor performance counters for online measurement of complete system power consumption. While past studies have demonstrated the use of per...
W. Lloyd Bircher, Lizy K. John
ISPASS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
An Analysis of Performance Interference Effects in Virtual Environments
Virtualization is an essential technology in modern datacenters. Despite advantages such as security isolation, fault isolation, and environment isolation, current virtualization ...
Younggyun Koh, Rob C. Knauerhase, Paul Brett, Mic ...
ISPASS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
CA-RAM: A High-Performance Memory Substrate for Search-Intensive Applications
This paper proposes a specialized memory structure called CA-RAM (Content Addressable Random Access Memory) to accelerate search operations present in many important real-world ap...
Sangyeun Cho, Joel R. Martin, Ruibin Xu, Mohammad ...
ISPASS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
PTLsim: A Cycle Accurate Full System x86-64 Microarchitectural Simulator
In this paper, we introduce PTLsim, a cycle accurate full system x86-64 microprocessor simulator and virtual machine. PTLsim models a modern superscalar out of order x86-64 proces...
Matt T. Yourst
ISPASS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Performance Impact of Unaligned Memory Operations in SIMD Extensions for Video Codec Applications
—Although SIMD extensions are a cost effective way to exploit the data level parallelism present in most media applications, we will show that they had have a very limited memory...
Mauricio Alvarez, Esther Salamí, Alex Ram&i...