CF
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2007
ACM
As we enter the era of petascale computing, system architects must plan for machines composed of tens or even hundreds of thousands of processors. Although fully connected network...
CF
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2007
ACM
Performance tuning is an important and time consuming task which may have to be repeated for each new application and platform. Although iterative optimisation can automate this p...
CF
2007
ACM
2007
ACM
Adaptive VP decay: making value predictors leakage-efficient designs for high performance processors
13 years 8 months ago
Energy-efficient microprocessor designs are one of the major concerns in both high performance and embedded processor domains. Furthermore, as process technology advances toward d...
CF
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2007
ACM
This paper proposes the use of very small instruction caches, called micro-caches (
CF
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2007
ACM
In this work we reduce interconnect power dissipation in Symmetric Multiprocessors or SMPs. We revisit snoopy cache coherence protocols and reduce unnecessary interconnect activit...
CF
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2007
ACM
In this paper we describe a new technique, called pipeline spectroscopy, and use it to measure the cost of each cache miss. The cost of a miss is displayed (graphed) as a histogra...