Using alternative cache indexing/hashing functions is a popular technique to reduce conflict misses by achieving a more uniform cache access distribution across the sets in the ca...
Mazen Kharbutli, Keith Irwin, Yan Solihin, Jaejin ...
This paper advocates that cache coherence protocols use a bandwidth adaptive approach to adjust to varied system configurations (e.g., number of processors) and workload behaviors...
Milo M. K. Martin, Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill, ...
This paper presents a new method for branch prediction. The key idea is to use one of the simplest possible neural networks, the perceptron as an alternative to the commonly used ...
We propose methods for reducing the energy consumed by snoop requests in snoopy bus-based symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) systems. Observing that a large fraction of snoops do not ...
Andreas Moshovos, Gokhan Memik, Babak Falsafi, Alo...
—Sequence alignment is a fundamental instrument in Bioinformatics. In recent years, numerous proposals have been addressing the problem of accelerating this class of applications...