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ISPASS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Friendly fire: understanding the effects of multiprocessor prefetches
Modern processors attempt to overcome increasing memory latencies by anticipating future references and prefetching those blocks from memory. The behavior and possible negative si...
Natalie D. Enright Jerger, Eric L. Hill, Mikko H. ...
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Critical path analysis of the TRIPS architecture
Fast, accurate, and effective performance analysis is essential for the design of modern processor architectures and improving application performance. Recent trends toward highly...
Ramadass Nagarajan, Xia Chen, Robert G. McDonald, ...
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluating the efficacy of statistical simulation for design space exploration
Ajay Joshi, Joshua J. Yi, Robert H. Bell Jr., Liev...
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Comparing simulation techniques for microarchitecture-aware floorplanning
— Due to the long simulation times of the reference input sets, microarchitects resort to alternative techniques to speed up cycle-accurate simulations. However, the reduction in...
Vidyasagar Nookala, Ying Chen, David J. Lilja, Sac...
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Modeling TCAM power for next generation network devices
Applications in Computer Networks often require high throughput access to large data structures for lookup and classification. Many advanced algorithms exist to speed these searc...
Banit Agrawal, Timothy Sherwood
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Comparing multinomial and k-means clustering for SimPoint
SimPoint is a technique used to pick what parts of the program’s execution to simulate in order to have a complete picture of execution. SimPoint uses data clustering algorithms...
Greg Hamerly, Erez Perelman, Brad Calder
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic testcase synthesis and performance model validation for high performance PowerPC processors
The latest high-performance IBM PowerPC microprocessor, the POWER5 chip, poses challenges for performance model validation. The current stateof-the-art is to use simple hand-coded...
Robert H. Bell Jr., Rajiv R. Bhatia, Lizy K. John,...