ICDCN
2012
Springer
12 years 10 months ago
2012
Springer
Synchronization in distributed systems is expensive because, in general, threads must stall to obtain a lock or to operate on volatile data. Transactional memory, on the other hand...
TOCS
1998
14 years 1 months ago
1998
This paper presents an experimental and analytical study of value prediction and its impact on speculative execution in superscalar microprocessors. Value prediction is a new para...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
Dynamic information flow tracking (also known as taint tracking) is an appealing approach to combat various security attacks. However, the performance of applications can severely...
ISCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
1995
IEEE
Current trends in processor design are pointing to deeper and wider pipelines and superscalar architectures. The efficient use of these resources requires speculative execution, ...
ISCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
1995
IEEE
Speculative execution is execution of instructions before it is known whether these instructions should be executed. Compiler-based speculative execution has the potential to achi...
ICECCS
1995
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
1995
IEEE
Achieving fault-tolerance using a primary-backup approach involves overhead of recovery such as activating the backup and propagating execution states, which may a ect the timelin...
CCGRID
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2003
IEEE
Interprocess communication (IPC) is ubiquitous in today's computing world. One of the simplest mechanisms for IPC is shared memory. We present a system that enhances the Syst...
ASPLOS
1992
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
1992
ACM
The foremost goal of superscalar processor design is to increase performance through the exploitation of instruction-level parallelism (ILP). Previous studies have shown that spec...
KBSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2003
IEEE
Modern architectures, such as the Intel Itanium, support speculation, a hardware mechanism that allows the early execution of expensive operations—possibly even before it is kno...
HPCA
2006
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2006
IEEE
Performance of multithreaded programs is heavily influenced by the latencies of the thread management and synchronization operations. Improving these latencies becomes especially...