In the past decade, the proliferation of mobile devices has increased at a spectacular rate. There are now more than 3.3 billion active cell phones in the world—a device that we...
Mark Woh, Sangwon Seo, Scott A. Mahlke, Trevor N. ...
A traditional fixed-function graphics accelerator has evolved into a programmable general-purpose graphics processing unit over the last few years. These powerful computing cores...
The current trend is for processors to deliver dramatic improvements in parallel performance while only modestly improving serial performance. Parallel performance is harvested th...
Sanjeev Kumar, Daehyun Kim, Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Y...
Although the best processor design for executing a specific workload does depend on the characteristics of the workload, it can not be determined without factoring-in the effect o...
Commercial processors have support for Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT), yet little work has been done to provide representative simulation results for SMT. Given a workload, cur...
Michael Van Biesbrouck, Lieven Eeckhout, Brad Cald...