Speed improvements in today's processors have largely been delivered in the form of multiple cores, increasing the importance of ions that ease parallel programming. Software...
Even though graphics processors (GPUs) are becoming increasingly popular for general purpose computing, current (and likely near future) generations of GPUs do not provide hardwar...
Dynamic binary translation (DBT) is a runtime instrumentation technique commonly used to support profiling, optimization, secure execution, and bug detection tools for application...
JaeWoong Chung, Michael Dalton, Hari Kannan, Chris...
Path profiles provide a more accurate characterization of a program's dynamic behavior than basic block or edge profiles, but are relatively more expensive to collect. This h...
Kapil Vaswani, Aditya V. Nori, Trishul M. Chilimbi
Tiling is a widely used loop transformation for exposing/exploiting parallelism and data locality. Effective use of tiling requires selection and tuning of the tile sizes. This is...