Efficiency of synchronization mechanisms can limit the parallel performance of many shared-memory applications. In addition, the ever increasing performance gap between processor...
— Starting at the 65nm node, stress engineering to improve performance of transistors has been a major industry focus. An intrinsic stress source – shallow trench isolation –...
Andrew B. Kahng, Puneet Sharma, Rasit Onur Topalog...
In recent years, the increasing number of processor cores and limited increases in main memory bandwidth have led to the problem of the bandwidth wall, where memory bandwidth is b...
Guangyu Sun, Christopher J. Hughes, Changkyu Kim, ...
Conventional relaxed memory ordering techniques follow a proactive model: at a synchronization point, a processor makes its own updates to memory available to other processors by ...
Christoph von Praun, Harold W. Cain, Jong-Deok Cho...
— Identifying performance bottlenecks is important for microarchitects and application developers to produce high performance microprocessor designs and application software. Man...