HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
This paper presents three techniques for improving the effectiveness of the recently proposed Adaptive Stream Detection (ASD) prefetching mechanism. The ASD prefetcher is a standa...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
This paper presents elastic buffers (EBs), an efficient flow-control scheme that uses the storage already present in pipelined channels in place of explicit input virtualchannel b...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
Software cache-based side channel attacks present serious threats to modern computer systems. Using caches as a side channel, these attacks are able to derive secret keys used in ...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
Inductive noise forces microprocessor designers to sacrifice performance in order to ensure correct and reliable operation of their designs. The possibility of wide fluctuations i...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
Realizing scalable cache coherence in the many-core era comes with a whole new set of constraints and opportunities. It is widely believed that multi-hop, unordered on-chip networ...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
Linked data structure (LDS) accesses are critical to the performance of many large scale applications. Techniques have been proposed to prefetch such accesses. Unfortunately, many...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
Heterogeneous multicores, such as Cell BE processors and GPGPUs, typically do not have caches for their accelerator cores because coherence traffic, cache misses, and latencies fr...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
Prior research demonstrates that temporal memory streaming and related address-correlating prefetchers improve performance of commercial server workloads though increased memory l...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
New media and signal processing applications demand ever higher performance while operating within the tight power constraints of mobile devices. A range of hardware implementatio...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
Interconnection plays an important role in performance and power of CMP designs using deep sub-micron technology. The network-on-chip (NoCs) has been proposed as a scalable and hi...