Power-Efficient DRAM Speculation (PEDS) is a power optimization targeted at broadcast-based sharedmemory multiprocessor systems that speculatively access DRAM in parallel with the...
Nidhi Aggarwal, Jason F. Cantin, Mikko H. Lipasti,...
Transactional Memory (TM) provides mechanisms that promise to simplify parallel programming by eliminating the need for locks and their associated problems (deadlock, livelock, pr...
Hassan Chafi, Jared Casper, Brian D. Carlstrom, Au...
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...
For highest performance, a modern microprocessor must be able to determine if an instruction is ready in the same cycle in which it is to be selected for execution. This creates a...
Branch misprediction penalty consists of two components: the time wasted on mis-speculative execution until the mispredicted branch is resolved and the time to restart the pipelin...
Amit Gandhi, Haitham Akkary, Srikanth T. Srinivasa...