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WMPI
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
High-performance out-of-order processors spend a significant portion of their execution time on the incorrect program path even though they employ aggressive branch prediction al...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
Fetch gating mechanisms have been proposed to gate the processor pipeline to reduce the wasted energy consumption due to wrongpath (i.e. mis-speculated) instructions. These scheme...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 10 days ago
2010
Springer
am analysis and has been widely studied. In this paper we consider this problem at the abstraction level of program schemas in which computations occur in the Herbrand domain of te...
ISCA
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
For many applications, branch mispredictions and cache misses limit a processor’s performance to a level well below its peak instruction throughput. A small fraction of static i...
ISCA
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
This paper evaluates performance characteristics of the Compaq ES40 shared memory multiprocessor. The ES40 system contains up to four Alpha 21264 CPU’s together with a high-perf...