Elevated temperatures impact the performance, power consumption, and reliability of
processors, which rely on integrated thermal sensors to measure runtime thermal behavior …

Modeling and analysis of program behavior are at the foundation of computer system design
and optimization. As computer systems become more adaptive, their efficiency increasingly …

Program runtime characteristics exhibit significant variation. As microprocessor architectures
become more complex, their efficiency depends on the capability of adapting with workload …

This work presents a new deformation algorithm for computer graphics and animation
applications. The algorithm is motivated by the mass-spring systems and the ChainMail …

In this work we use the Fourier expansion to characterize and model many-core processor
workloads for the purpose of computing accurate predictions of individual core thermal …

Program phase analysis has many applications in computer architecture design and
optimization. Recently, there has been a growing interest in employing wavelets as a tool for …

In the past decade, power consumption has become the primary factor in overall
microprocessor design complexity due to ideal geometric scaling and non-ideal electrical …

As microprocessors become more complex, early design space exploration plays an
essential role in reducing the time to market and post-silicon surprises. The trend toward …

As microprocessors become more complex, early design space exploration plays an
essential role in reducing the time to market and post-silicon surprises. The trend toward …

Today's microprocessors require careful analysis of their thermal behavior both at design
time as well as at runtime. However, accurate prediction of thermal behavior is possible only …