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Trace based phase prediction for tightly-coupled heterogeneous cores

Padmanabha et al., 2013

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7218610402189111437
Author
Padmanabha S
Lukefahr A
Das R
Mahlke S
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Proceedings of the 46th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture

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Heterogeneous multicore systems are composed of multiple cores with varying energy and performance characteristics. A controller dynamically detects phase changes in applications and migrates execution onto the most efficient core that meets the performance …
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