A quantitative analysis of program execution is essential to the computer architecture design process. With the current trend in architecture of enhancing the performance of unipr...
Many years of CMOS technology scaling have resulted in increased power densities and higher core temperatures. Power and temperature concerns are now considered to be a primary cha...
Daniel C. Vanderster, Amirali Baniasadi, Nikitas J...
The transition to multithreaded, multi-core designs places a greater responsibility on programmers and software for improving performance; thread-level parallelism (TLP) will be i...
Tipp Moseley, Daniel A. Connors, Dirk Grunwald, Ra...
Utility programs, which perform similar and largely independent operations on a sequence of inputs, include such common applications as compilers, interpreters, and document parse...
Xipeng Shen, Michael L. Scott, Chengliang Zhang, S...
Abstract-- The power consumption of microprocessors has been increasing in step with the complexity of each progressive generation. In general purpose processors, this is primarily...