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ICPP
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Optimization of Instruction Fetch for Decision Support Workloads
Instruction fetch bandwidth is feared to be a major limiting factor to the performance of future wide-issue aggressive superscalars. In this paper, we focus on Database applicatio...
Alex Ramírez, Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey, Carl...
EUROPAR
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
On the Performance of Fetch Engines Running DSS Workloads
Abstract This paper examines the behavior of current and next generation microprocessors' fetch engines while running Decision Support Systems (DSS) workloads. We analyze the ...
Carlos Navarro, Alex Ramírez, Josep-Lluis L...
MICRO
1999
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Instruction Fetch Mechanisms for Multipath Execution Processors
Branch mispredictions can have a major performance impact on high-performance processors. Multipath execution has recently been introduced to help limit the misprediction penaltie...
Artur Klauser, Dirk Grunwald
ASPLOS
1998
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Performance of Database Workloads on Shared-Memory Systems with Out-of-Order Processors
Database applications such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and decision support systems (DSS) constitute the largest and fastest-growing segment of the market for multipro...
Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Kourosh Gharachorloo, S...
CF
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Predictable performance in SMT processors
Current instruction fetch policies in SMT processors are oriented towards optimization of overall throughput and/or fairness. However, they provide no control over how individual ...
Francisco J. Cazorla, Peter M. W. Knijnenburg, Riz...