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RTSS
2003
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Data Caches in Multitasking Hard Real-Time Systems
Data caches are essential in modern processors, bridging the widening gap between main memory and processor speeds. However, they yield very complex performance models, which make...
Xavier Vera, Björn Lisper, Jingling Xue
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SPAA
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Modeling instruction placement on a spatial architecture
In response to current technology scaling trends, architects are developing a new style of processor, known as spatial computers. A spatial computer is composed of hundreds or eve...
Martha Mercaldi, Steven Swanson, Andrew Petersen, ...
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
RapidMRC: approximating L2 miss rate curves on commodity systems for online optimizations
Miss rate curves (MRCs) are useful in a number of contexts. In our research, online L2 cache MRCs enable us to dynamically identify optimal cache sizes when cache-partitioning a s...
David K. Tam, Reza Azimi, Livio Soares, Michael St...
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MICRO
1999
IEEE
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15 years 1 months ago
Fetch Directed Instruction Prefetching
Instruction supply is a crucial component of processor performance. Instruction prefetching has been proposed as a mechanism to help reduce instruction cache misses, which in turn...
Glenn Reinman, Brad Calder, Todd M. Austin
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PLDI
2003
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Compile-time dynamic voltage scaling settings: opportunities and limits
With power-related concerns becoming dominant aspects of hardware and software design, significant research effort has been devoted towards system power minimization. Among run-t...
Fen Xie, Margaret Martonosi, Sharad Malik