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HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Feedback mechanisms for improving probabilistic memory prefetching
This paper presents three techniques for improving the effectiveness of the recently proposed Adaptive Stream Detection (ASD) prefetching mechanism. The ASD prefetcher is a standa...
Ibrahim Hur, Calvin Lin
MICRO
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Coordinated control of multiple prefetchers in multi-core systems
Aggressive prefetching is very beneficial for memory latency tolerance of many applications. However, it faces significant challenges in multi-core systems. Prefetchers of diff...
Eiman Ebrahimi, Onur Mutlu, Chang Joo Lee, Yale N....
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Techniques for bandwidth-efficient prefetching of linked data structures in hybrid prefetching systems
Linked data structure (LDS) accesses are critical to the performance of many large scale applications. Techniques have been proposed to prefetch such accesses. Unfortunately, many...
Eiman Ebrahimi, Onur Mutlu, Yale N. Patt
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Runahead execution vs. conventional data prefetching in the IBM POWER6 microprocessor
After many years of prefetching research, most commercially available systems support only two types of prefetching: software-directed prefetching and hardware-based prefetchers u...
Harold W. Cain, Priya Nagpurkar
ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
13 years 6 months ago
Timing local streams: improving timeliness in data prefetching
Data prefetching technique is widely used to bridge the growing performance gap between processor and memory. Numerous prefetching techniques have been proposed to exploit data pa...
Huaiyu Zhu, Yong Chen, Xian-He Sun