Rollback-free value prediction with approximate loads

Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques - Conference Proceedings, PACT

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 493-494

  Thwaites, Bradley ^a   Pekhimenko, Gennady ^b   Esmaeilzadeh, Hadi ^a   Yazdanbakhsh, Amir ^a   Mutlu, Onur ^b   Park, Jongse ^a   Mururu, Girish ^a   Mowry, Todd ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

compilers; general purpose approximate computing; memory systems; rollback free value prediction

Indexed keywords

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PROGRAM COMPILERS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

APPROXIMATION TECHNIQUES; AVERAGE QUALITY LOSS; GENERAL-PURPOSE APPROXIMATE COMPUTING; INHERENT ERRORS; MEMORY ACCESS; MEMORY SYSTEMS; OUT-OF-ORDER PROCESSORS; VALUE PREDICTION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84907076369     PISSN: 1089795X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2628071.2628110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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