IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
2009
IEEE
Soft-OLP: Improving Hardware Cache Performance through Software-Controlled Object-Level Partitioning
13 years 11 months ago
—Performance degradation of memory-intensive programs caused by the LRU policy’s inability to handle weaklocality data accesses in the last level cache is increasingly serious ...
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
— This research demonstrates that coming support for hardware transactional memory can be leveraged to significantly reduce the cost of implementing true speculative multithread...
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
Parallel programming is a requirement in the multi-core era. One of the most promising techniques to make parallel programming available for the general users is the use of parall...
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
—Analytical models have been used to estimate optimal values for parameters such as tile sizes in the context of loop nests. However, important algorithms such as fast Fourier tr...
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
—CPR (Checkpoint Processing and Recovery) is a physical register management scheme that supports a larger instruction window and higher average IPC than conventional ROB-style re...
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
—Software testing is hard. The emergence of multicore architectures and the proliferation of bugprone multithreaded software makes testing even harder. To this end, researchers h...
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract—Optimizing compilers apply numerous interdependent optimizations, leading to the notoriously difficult phase-ordering problem — that of deciding which transformations...
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
—With increasing numbers of cores, future CMPs (Chip Multi-Processors) are likely to have a tiled architecture with a portion of shared L2 cache on each tile and a bankinterleave...
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
—Bulk memory copying and initialization is one of the most ubiquitous operations performed in current computer systems by both user applications and Operating Systems. While many...
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
Industry is moving towards multi-core designs as we have hit the memory and power walls. Multi-core designs are very effective to exploit thread-level parallelism (TLP) but do not...