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HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
PaCo: Probability-based path confidence prediction
A path confidence estimate indicates the likelihood that the processor is currently fetching correct path instructions. Accurate path confidence prediction is critical for applica...
Kshitiz Malik, Mayank Agarwal, Vikram Dhar, Matthe...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Hardware Support for Prescient Instruction Prefetch
This paper proposes and evaluates hardware mechanisms for supporting prescient instruction prefetch--an approach to improving single-threaded application performance by using help...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow, Per Hammarlund, Hong Wan...
ACISICIS
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An Effective Cache Overlapping Storage Structure for SMT Processors
Simultaneous Multithreaded (SMT) processors improve the instruction throughput by allowing fetching and running instructions from several threads simultaneously at a single cycle....
Liqiang He, Zhiyong Liu
IEEEPACT
2003
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Impact of Resource Partitioning on SMT Processors
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) increases processor throughput by multiplexing resources among several threads. Despite the commercial availability of SMT processors, several as...
Steven E. Raasch, Steven K. Reinhardt
ISPASS
2007
IEEE
14 years 9 days 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. ...