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IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
—Bulk memory copying and initialization is one of the most ubiquitous operations performed in current computer systems by both user applications and Operating Systems. While many...
CLUSTER
2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2007
IEEE
Bulk memory copies incur large overheads such as CPU stalling (i.e., no overlap of computation with memory copy operation), small register-size data movement, cache pollution, etc...
SPDP
1993
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1993
IEEE
This paper examines how the performance of a shared-memory multiprocessor can be improved by including hardware support for block transfers. A system similar to the Hector multipr...
ISCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1996
IEEE
Memory latency is an important bottleneck in system performance that cannot be adequately solved by hardware alone. Several promising software techniques have been shown to addres...
CF
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2010
ACM
Per-core local (scratchpad) memories allow direct inter-core communication, with latency and energy advantages over coherent cache-based communication, especially as CMP architect...