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HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Hardware Support for Prescient Instruction Prefetch
This paper proposes and evaluates hardware mechanisms for supporting prescient instruction prefetch--an approach to improving single-threaded application performance by using help...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow, Per Hammarlund, Hong Wan...
SC
2000
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Using Hardware Performance Monitors to Isolate Memory Bottlenecks
In this paper, we present and evaluate two techniques that use different styles of hardware support to provide data structure specific processor cache information. In one approach...
Bryan R. Buck, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth
SIGMETRICS
2005
ACM
156views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2005»
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluating the impact of simultaneous multithreading on network servers using real hardware
This paper examines the performance of simultaneous multithreading (SMT) for network servers using actual hardware, multiple network server applications, and several workloads. Us...
Yaoping Ruan, Vivek S. Pai, Erich M. Nahum, John M...
CANPC
1999
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Implementing Application-Specific Cache-Coherence Protocols in Configurable Hardware
Streamlining communication is key to achieving good performance in shared-memory parallel programs. While full hardware support for cache coherence generally offers the best perfo...
David Brooks, Margaret Martonosi
VLSID
2008
IEEE
128views VLSI» more  VLSID 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Addressing the Challenges of Synchronization/Communication and Debugging Support in Hardware/Software Cosimulation
With increasing adoption of Electronic System Level (ESL) tools, effective design and validation time has reduced to a considerable extent. Cosimulation is found to be a principal...
Banit Agrawal, Timothy Sherwood, Chulho Shin, Simo...