ABSTRACT Because of technology advances power consumption has emerged up as an important design issue in modern high-performance microprocessors. As a consequence, research on redu...
Diana Bautista, Julio Sahuquillo, Houcine Hassan, ...
As wireless platforms converge to multimedia systems, architectures must converge to support voice, data, and video applications. From a processor architecture perspective, suppor...
C. John Glossner, Mayan Moudgill, Daniel Iancu, Ga...
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
Multithreaded programs are notoriously prone to race conditions, a problem exacerbated by the widespread adoption of multi-core processors with complex memory models and cache coh...