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2010
IEEE
14 years 11 days ago
Runahead execution vs. conventional data prefetching in the IBM POWER6 microprocessor
After many years of prefetching research, most commercially available systems support only two types of prefetching: software-directed prefetching and hardware-based prefetchers u...
Harold W. Cain, Priya Nagpurkar
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
14 years 11 days ago
Dynamic program analysis of Microsoft Windows applications
—Software instrumentation is a powerful and flexible technique for analyzing the dynamic behavior of programs. By inserting extra code in an application, it is possible to study...
Alex Skaletsky, Tevi Devor, Nadav Chachmon, Robert...
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
14 years 11 days ago
Memphis: Finding and fixing NUMA-related performance problems on multi-core platforms
—Until recently, most high-end scientific applications have been immune to performance problems caused by NonUniform Memory Access (NUMA). However, current trends in micro-proces...
Collin McCurdy, Jeffrey S. Vetter
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
14 years 11 days ago
Hardware prediction of OS run-length for fine-grained resource customization
—In the past ten years, computer architecture has seen a paradigm shift from emphasizing single thread performance to energy efficient, throughput oriented, chip multiprocessors...
David Nellans, Kshitij Sudan, Rajeev Balasubramoni...
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
PEBIL: Efficient static binary instrumentation for Linux
Binary instrumentation facilitates the insertion of additional code into an executable in order to observe or modify the executable's behavior. There are two main approaches t...
Michael Laurenzano, Mustafa M. Tikir, Laura Carrin...