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ISCA
1996
IEEE
120views Hardware» more  ISCA 1996»
13 years 9 months ago
Missing the Memory Wall: The Case for Processor/Memory Integration
Current high performance computer systems use complex, large superscalar CPUs that interface to the main memory through a hierarchy of caches and interconnect systems. These CPU-c...
Ashley Saulsbury, Fong Pong, Andreas Nowatzyk
CF
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Kilo-instruction processors, runahead and prefetching
There is a continuous research effort devoted to overcome the memory wall problem. Prefetching is one of the most frequently used techniques. A prefetch mechanism anticipates the ...
Tanausú Ramírez, Alex Pajuelo, Olive...
VLSID
2010
IEEE
202views VLSI» more  VLSID 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Processor Architecture Design Using 3D Integration Technology
The emerging three-dimensional (3D) chip architectures, with their intrinsic capability of reducing the wire length, is one of the promising solutions to mitigate the interconnect...
Yuan Xie
ISCA
1996
IEEE
130views Hardware» more  ISCA 1996»
13 years 9 months ago
Informing Memory Operations: Providing Memory Performance Feedback in Modern Processors
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...
Mark Horowitz, Margaret Martonosi, Todd C. Mowry, ...
ISCA
2009
IEEE
150views Hardware» more  ISCA 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Stream chaining: exploiting multiple levels of correlation in data prefetching
Data prefetching has long been an important technique to amortize the effects of the memory wall, and is likely to remain so in the current era of multi-core systems. Most prefetc...
Pedro Diaz, Marcelo Cintra