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 …

Prior work in hardware prefetching has focused mostly on either predicting regular streams
with uniform strides, or predicting irregular access patterns at the cost of large hardware …

Applications extensively use data objects with a regular and fixed layout, which leads to the
recurrence of access patterns over memory regions. Spatial data prefetching techniques …

Prior research indicates that there is much spatial variation in applications' memory access
patterns. Modern memory systems, however, use small fixed-size cache blocks and as such …

This paper introduces the Irregular Stream Buffer (ISB), a prefetcher that targets irregular
sequences of temporally correlated memory references. The key idea is to use an extra level …

Data prefetching, ie, the act of predicting an application's future memory accesses and
fetching those that are not in the on-chip caches, is a well-known and widely used approach …

For parallelism to become tractable for mass programmers, shared-memory languages and
environments must evolve to enforce disciplined practices that ban" wild shared-memory …

Big-data server applications frequently encounter data misses, and hence, lose significant
performance potential. One way to reduce the number of data misses or their effect is data …

Recent research advocates memory streaming techniques to alleviate the performance
bottleneck caused by the high latencies of off-chip memory accesses. Temporal memory …