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HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Hardware Support for Prescient Instruction Prefetch
This paper proposes and evaluates hardware mechanisms for supporting prescient instruction prefetch--an approach to improving single-threaded application performance by using help...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow, Per Hammarlund, Hong Wan...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Reducing Branch Misprediction Penalty via Selective Branch Recovery
Branch misprediction penalty consists of two components: the time wasted on mis-speculative execution until the mispredicted branch is resolved and the time to restart the pipelin...
Amit Gandhi, Haitham Akkary, Srikanth T. Srinivasa...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Program Counter Based Techniques for Dynamic Power Management
Reducing energy consumption has become one of the major challenges in designing future computing systems. This paper proposes a novel idea of using program counters to predict I/O...
Chris Gniady, Y. Charlie Hu, Yung-Hsiang Lu
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Improving Disk Throughput in Data-Intensive Servers
Low disk throughput is one of the main impediments to improving the performance of data-intensive servers. In this paper, we propose two management techniques for the disk control...
Enrique V. Carrera, Ricardo Bianchini
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Exploring Wakeup-Free Instruction Scheduling
Design of wakeup-free issue queues is becoming desirable due to the increasing complexity associated with broadcast-based instruction wakeup. The effectiveness of most wakeup-free...
Jie S. Hu, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan, Mary Jane Irwi...