Energy-efficient processor design is becoming more and more important with technology scaling and with high performance requirements. Supply-voltage scaling is an efficient way to...
Hai Li, Chen-Yong Cher, T. N. Vijaykumar, Kaushik ...
One of the essential features in modern computer systems is context switching, which allows multiple threads of execution to time-share a limited number of processors. While very ...
Fang Liu, Fei Guo, Yan Solihin, Seongbeom Kim, Abd...
Instruction fetch behavior has been shown to be very regular and predictable, even for diverse application areas. In this work, we propose the Lookahead Instruction Fetch Engine (...
Stephen Roderick Hines, Yuval Peress, Peter Gavin,...
Integrating more processor cores on-die has become the unanimous trend in the microprocessor industry. Most of the current research thrusts using chip multiprocessors (CMPs) as th...
Chinnakrishnan S. Ballapuram, Ahmad Sharif, Hsien-...
— This paper demonstrates that the algorithmic performance of end user programs may be greatly affected by the two or three level caching scheme of the processor, and we introduc...