Multimedia instruction set extensions have become a prominent feature in desktop microprocessor platforms, promising superior performance on a wide range of floating-point and int...
This paper describes transformation techniques for out-of-core programs (i.e., those that deal with very large quantities of data) based on exploiting locality using a combination...
Mahmut T. Kandemir, Alok N. Choudhary, J. Ramanuja...
In today's wide-issue processors, even small branch-misprediction rates introduce substantial performance penalties. Worse yet, inadequate branch prediction creates a bottlen...
Kevin Skadron, Margaret Martonosi, Douglas W. Clar...
Heterogeneous or co-processor architectures are becoming an important component of high productivity computing systems (HPCS). In this work the performance of a GPU based HPCS is c...
David Huw Jones, Adam Powell, Christos-Savvas Boug...
Soft error reliability has become a first-order design criterion for modern microprocessors. Architectural Vulnerability Factor (AVF) modeling is often used to capture the probab...
Arun A. Nair, Stijn Eyerman, Lieven Eeckhout, Lizy...