Cross-core application interference due to contention for shared on-chip and off-chip resources pose a significant challenge to providing application level quality of service (Qo...
Jason Mars, Neil Vachharajani, Robert Hundt, Mary ...
Hardware transactional memory has great potential to simplify the creation of correct and efficient multithreaded programs, allowing programmers to exploit more effectively the s...
Colin Blundell, Joe Devietti, E. Christopher Lewis...
An emerging trend in processor design is the addition of short vector instructions to general-purpose and embedded ISAs. Frequently, these extensions are employed using traditiona...
Samuel Larsen, Rodric M. Rabbah, Saman P. Amarasin...
Significant improvement to visual quality for real-time 3D graphics requires modeling of complex illumination effects like soft-shadows, reflections, and diffuse lighting intera...
Venkatraman Govindaraju, Peter Djeu, Karthikeyan S...
Low power has been considered as an important issue in instruction cache (I-cache) designs. Several studies have shown that the I-cache can be tuned to reduce power. These techniq...