Quantifying load stream behavior

Proceedings - International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 197-208

  Sair, Suleyman ^a   Sherwood, Timothy ^a   Calder, Brad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Application software; Computer architecture; Computer science; Delay; Hardware; Impedance; Prefetching; Resource management; Software algorithms; Software performance

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HARDWARE; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; OPTIMIZATION; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

DELAY; PREFETCHING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 79955884420     PISSN: 15300897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCA.2002.995710     Document Type: Article

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