The expanding gap between microprocessor and DRAM performance has necessitated the
use of increasingly aggressive techniques designed to reduce or hide the latency of main …

As the trends of process scaling make memory systems an even more crucial bottleneck, the
importance of latency hiding techniques such as prefetching grows further. However, naively …

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Fifth Edition, explores the ways that
software and technology in the cloud are accessed by digital media, such as cell phones …

This new, expanded textbook describes all phases of a modern compiler: lexical analysis,
parsing, abstract syntax, semantic actions, intermediate representations, instruction …

Is your memory hierarchy stop** your microprocessor from performing at the high level it
should be? Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk shows you how to resolve this problem …

Fast changing, increasingly complex, and diverse computing platforms pose central
problems in scientific computing: How to achieve, with reasonable effort, portable optimal …

Memory latency and bandwidth are progressing at a much slower pace than processor
performance. In this paper, we describe and evaluate the performance of three variations of …

Since the introduction of virtual memory demand-paging and cache memories, computer
systems have been exploiting spatial and temporal locality to reduce the average latency of …

Prefetching is one approach to reducing the latency of memory operations in modern
computer systems. In this paper, we describe the Markov prefetcher. This prefetcher acts as …

Today's high performance processors tolerate long latency operations by means of out-of-
order execution. However, as latencies increase, the size of the instruction window must …