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Showing result 21 - 25 of 128 swedish dissertations containing the word Cache.

  2. 21. Leveraging Existing Microarchitectural Structures to Improve First-Level Caching Efficiency

    Author : Ricardo Alves; David Black-Schaffer; Stefanos Kaxiras; Mattan Erez; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Energy Efficient Caching; Memory Architecture; Single Thread Performance; First-Level Caching; Out-of-Order Pipelines; Instruction Scheduling; Filter-Cache; Way-Prediction; Value-Prediction; Register-Sharing.;

    Abstract : Low-latency data access is essential for performance. To achieve this, processors use fast first-level caches combined with out-of-order execution, to decrease and hide memory access latency respectively. READ MORE

  4. 22. Efficient Memory Modeling During Simulation and Native Execution

    Author : Nikos Nikoleris; Erik Hagersten; Lieven Eeckhout; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; performance analysis; cache performance; multicore performance; memory system; memory bandwidth; memory contention; performance prediction; multi-threading; multiprocessing systems; program diagnostics; commodity multicores; multithreaded program resource requirements; performance counters; scalability bottleneck; scalability improvement; Computer Science; Datavetenskap;

    Abstract : Application performance on computer processors depends on a number of complex architectural and microarchitectural design decisions. Consequently, computer architects rely on performance modeling to improve future processors without building prototypes. READ MORE

  5. 23. Adaptive Microarchitectural Optimizations to Improve Performance and Security of Multi-Core Architectures

    Author : Nadja Holtryd; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Multi-Core Architectures; Bandwidth Partitioning; Prefetch Throttling; Cache Partitioning; Microarchitectural Optimizations; Side-channel Attacks;

    Abstract : With the current technological barriers, microarchitectural optimizations are increasingly important to ensure performance scalability of computing systems. The shift to multi-core architectures increases the demands on the memory system, and amplifies the role of microarchitectural optimizations in performance improvement. READ MORE

  6. 24. Improving Energy-Efficiency of Multicores using First-Order Modeling

    Author : Vasileios Spiliopoulos; Stefanos Kaxiras; Lieven Eeckhout; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer Architecture; DVFS; Cache Resizing; Interval modeling; Power modeling; Computer Science; Datavetenskap;

    Abstract : In the recent decades, power consumption has evolved to one of the most critical resources in a computer system. In the form of electricity bill in data centers, battery life in mobile devices, or thermal constraints in desktops and laptops, power consumption imposes several limitations in today’s processors and improving power and energy efficiency is one of the most urgent research topics of Computer Architecture. READ MORE

  7. 25. Dynamic Management of Multi-Core Processor Resources to Improve Energy Efficiency under Quality-of-Service Constraints

    Author : Mehrzad Nejat; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Cache Partitioning; Dynamic Voltage-Frequency Scaling DVFS ; Energy Efficiency; Re-configurable Core Architecture; Multi-core Resource Management; Quality-of-Service QoS ;

    Abstract : With the current technology trends, the number of computers and computation demand is increasing dramatically. In addition to different economic and environmental costs at a large scale, the operational time of battery-powered devices is dependent on how efficiently the computer processors consume energy. READ MORE