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 …

Past research has proposed numerous hardware prefetching techniques, most of which rely
on exploiting one specific type of program context information (eg, program counter …

Pointer chasing is a fundamental operation, used by many important data-intensive
applications (eg, databases, key-value stores, graph processing workloads) to traverse …

Although InfiniBand Architecture is relatively new in the high performance computing area, it
offers many features which help us to improve the performance of communication …

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 …

Machine learning, graph analytics and sparse linear algebra-based applications are
dominated by irregular memory accesses resulting from following edges in a graph or non …

The instruction-level parallelism found in a conventional instruction stream is limited. Studies
have shown the limits of processor utilization even for today's superscalar microprocessors …

Irregular workloads are typically bottlenecked by the memory system. These workloads often
use sparse data representations, eg, compressed sparse row/column (CSR/CSC), to …

In emerging and future high-end processor systems, tolerating increasing cache miss
latency and properly managing memory bandwidth will be critical to achieving high …

The performance of memory-bound commercial applicationssuch as databases is limited by
increasing memory latencies. Inthis paper, we show that exploiting memory-level parallelism …