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MICRO
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
ASF: AMD64 Extension for Lock-Free Data Structures and Transactional Memory
Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
Jae-Woong Chung, Luke Yen, Stephan Diestelhorst, M...
WOSP
2004
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Collecting whole-system reference traces of multiprogrammed and multithreaded workloads
The simulated evaluation of memory management policies relies on reference traces—logs of memory operations performed by running processes. No existing approach to reference tra...
Scott F. Kaplan
DATE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 7 days ago
Adaptive prefetching for shared cache based chip multiprocessors
Abstract—Chip multiprocessors (CMPs) present a unique scenario for software data prefetching with subtle tradeoffs between memory bandwidth and performance. In a shared L2 based ...
Mahmut T. Kandemir, Yuanrui Zhang, Ozcan Ozturk
CASES
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Frequent loop detection using efficient non-intrusive on-chip hardware
Dynamic software optimization methods are becoming increasingly popular for improving software performance and power. The first step in dynamic optimization consists of detecting ...
Ann Gordon-Ross, Frank Vahid
JCPHY
2011
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12 years 8 months ago
Fast analysis of molecular dynamics trajectories with graphics processing units - Radial distribution function histogramming
The calculation of radial distribution functions (RDFs) from molecular dynamics trajectory data is a common and computationally expensive analysis task. The rate limiting step in ...
Benjamin G. Levine, John E. Stone, Axel Kohlmeyer