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2006
ACM
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Reducing power through compiler-directed barrier synchronization elimination
Interprocessor synchronization, while extremely important for ensuring execution correctness, can be very costly in terms of both power and performance overheads. Unfortunately, m...
Mahmut T. Kandemir, Seung Woo Son
APCSAC
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Energy-Effective Instruction Fetch Unit for Wide Issue Processors
Continuing advances in semiconductor technology and demand for higher performance will lead to more powerful, superpipelined and wider issue processors. Instruction caches in such ...
Juan L. Aragón, Alexander V. Veidenbaum
DSN
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Engineering Over-Clocking: Reliability-Performance Trade-Offs for High-Performance Register Files
Register files are in the critical path of most high-performance processors and their latency is one of the most important factors that limit their size. Our goal is to develop er...
Gokhan Memik, Masud H. Chowdhury, Arindam Mallik, ...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Accurate Energy Dissipation and Thermal Modeling for Nanometer-Scale Buses
With technology scaling, power dissipation and localized heating in global and semi-global bus wires are becoming increasingly important, and this necessitates the development of ...
Krishnan Sundaresan, Nihar R. Mahapatra
IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Maximizing CMP Throughput with Mediocre Cores
In this paper we compare the performance of area equivalent small, medium, and large-scale multithreaded chip multiprocessors (CMTs) using throughput-oriented applications. We use...
John D. Davis, James Laudon, Kunle Olukotun