Advances in computers 2014/ edited by Ali Hurson

1. Register-Level Communication in Speculative
Chip Multiprocessors
Milan B. Radulovic, Milo V. Tomasevic, and Veljko M. Milutinovic
1. Introduaion
2. TLSinCMPs
3. Register Communication Mechanisms in Speculative CMPs
4. Comparative Analysis of Register Communication Issues in TLS CMPs
5. Case Study: SIC and ESIC Protocols
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
2. Survey on System I/O Hardware Transactions and impact
on Latency, Throughput, and Other Factors
Steen Larsen and Ben Lee
1. Introduction
2. Background and General Discussion
3. Measurements and Quantifications
4. Survey of Existing Methods and Techniques
5. Potential Area of Performance Improvement
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
3. Hardware and Application Profiling Tools
Tomislav Janjusic and Krishna Kavi
1. Introduction
2. Application Profiling
3. Hardware Profiling
4. Conclusions
5. Application Profilers Summary
6. Hardware Profilers Summary
References
4. Model Transformation Using Multiobjective Optimization
Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer and Marouane Kessentini
1. Introduction
2. State of the Art
3. Motivations and Problem Statement
4. Approach Oven/iew
5. Multiobjective Model Transformation
6. Validation
7. Conclusion
References
5. Manual Parallelization Versus State-of-the-Art Parallelization
Techniques: The SPEC CPU2006 as a Case Study
Aleksandar Vitorovic, Milo V. Tomasevic, and Veljko M. Milutinovic
1. Introduction
2. Parallelization Theory
3. Parallelization Techniques and Tools
4. About Manual Parallelization
5. Case Study: Parallelization of SPEC CPU2006
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix
References