HPCA
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
On-network hardware support for multi-destination traffic is a desirable feature in most multiprocessor machines. Multicast hardware capabilities enable much more effective bandwi...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
As transistor process technology approaches the nanometer scale, process variation significantly affects the design and optimization of high performance microprocessors. Prior stu...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
While parallelism and multi-cores are receiving much attention as a major scalability path, customization is another, orthogonal and complementary, scalability path which can targ...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
Growing concerns about power have revived interest in in-order pipelines. In-order pipelines sacrifice single-thread performance. Specifically, they do not allow execution to flow...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
In future multi-cores, large amounts of delay and power will be spent accessing data in large L2/L3 caches. It has been recently shown that OS-based page coloring allows a non-uni...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
Some instructions have more impact on processor performance than others. Identification of these critical instructions can be used to modify and improve instruction processing. Pr...
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...