This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
Software or hardware data cache prefetching is an efficient way to hide cache miss latency. However effectiveness of the issued prefetches have to be monitored in order to maximi...
Retrieving sequential rich media content from modern commodity disks is a challenging task. As disk capacity increases, there is a need to increase the number of streams that are ...
George Panagiotakis, Michail Flouris, Angelos Bila...
This paper presents an automated performance tuning solution, which partitions a program into a number of tuning sections and finds the best combination of compiler options for e...