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ICCD
2003
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2003
IEEE
We analyze the effect of errors in branch predictors, a representative example of speculative processor subsystems, to motivate the necessity for fault tolerance in such subsystem...
IEEEPACT
1998
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
1998
IEEE
Conventional speculative architectures use branch prediction to evaluate the most likely execution path during program execution. However, certain branches are difficult to predic...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
If-conversion is a compiler technique that reduces the misprediction penalties caused by hard-to-predict branches, transforming control dependencies into data dependencies. Althou...
IEEEPACT
2000
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2000
IEEE
Branch prediction accuracy is a very important factor for superscalarprocessor performance. The ability topredict the outcome of a branch allows the processor to effectively use a...
SAINT
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2005
IEEE
This paper presents a case study to effectively run a parallel branch and bound application on the Grid. The application discussed in this paper is a fine-grain application and is...