Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Jimborean, Alexandra"

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    • Clairvoyance: Look-Ahead Compile-Time Scheduling 

      Tran, Kim-Anh; Carlson, Trevor E.; Koukos, Konstantinos; Själander, Magnus; Spiliopoulos, Vasileios; Kaxiras, Stefanos; Jimborean, Alexandra (Chapter, 2017)
      To enhance the performance of memory-bound applications, hardware designs have been developed to hide memory latency, such as the out-of-order (OoO) execution engine, at the price of increased energy consumption. Contemporary ...

    • Clearing the Shadows: Recovering Lost Performance for Invisible Speculative Execution through HW/SW Co-Design 

      Tran, Kim-anh; Sakalis, Christos; Själander, Magnus; Ros, Alberto; Kaxiras, Stefanos; Jimborean, Alexandra (Chapter, 2020)
      Out-of-order processors heavily rely on speculation to achieve high performance, allowing instructions to bypass other slower instructions in order to fully utilize the processor's resources. Speculatively executed ...

    • Efficient invisible speculative execution through selective delay and value prediction 

      Sakalis, Christos; Kaxiras, Stefanos; Ros, Alberto; Jimborean, Alexandra; Själander, Magnus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Speculative execution, the base on which modern high-performance general-purpose CPUs are built on, has recently been shown to enable a slew of security attacks. All these attacks are centered around a common set of ...

    • Evaluating the Potential Applications of Quaternary Logic for Approximate Computing 

      Sakalis, Christos; Jimborean, Alexandra; Kaxiras, Stefanos; Själander, Magnus (Journal article, 2019)
      There exist extensive ongoing research efforts on emerging atomic-scale technologies that have the potential to become an alternative to today’s complementary metal--oxide--semiconductor technologies. A common feature among ...

    • Ghost loads: what is the cost of invisible speculation? 

      Sakalis, Christos; Alipour, Mehdi; Ros, Alberto; Jimborean, Alexandra; Kaxiras, Stefanos; Själander, Magnus (Chapter, 2019)
      Speculative execution is necessary for achieving high performance on modern general-purpose CPUs but, starting with Spectre and Meltdown, it has also been proven to cause severe security flaws. In case of a misspeculation, ...

    • Static Instruction Scheduling for High Performance on Limited Hardware 

      Tran, Kim-anh; Carlson, Trevor E.; Koukos, Konstantinos; Själander, Magnus; Spiliopoulos, Vasileios; Kaxiras, Stefanos; Jimborean, Alexandra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Complex out-of-order (OoO) processors have been designed to overcome the restrictions of outstanding long-latency misses at the cost of increased energy consumption. Simple, limited OoO processors are a compromise in terms ...

    • SWOOP: Software-Hardware Co-design for Non-speculative, Execute-Ahead, In-Order Cores 

      Tran, Kim-anh; Jimborean, Alexandra; Carlson, Trevor E.; Koukos, Konstantinos; Själander, Magnus; Kaxiras, Stefanos (Chapter, 2018)
      Increasing demands for energy efficiency constrain emerging hardware. These new hardware trends challenge the established assumptions in code generation and force us to rethink existing software optimization techniques. ...

    • Understanding Selective Delay as a Method for Efficient Secure Speculative Execution 

      Sakalis, Christos; Kaxiras, Stefanos; Ros, Alberto; Jimborean, Alexandra; Själander, Magnus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Since the introduction of Meltdown and Spectre, the research community has been tirelessly working on speculative side-channel attacks and on how to shield computer systems from them. To ensure that a system is protected ...