Project description
Extending the coherence protocol to optimise multicore processors' energy efficiency
Multicore processors in digital devices such as smartphones and high-performance servers require increased computational power to access emerging applications. However, their performance can be significantly impeded by speculation techniques in hardware, which often perform unnecessary operations that excessively increase power consumption. Therefore, it is essential to design multicore processors that are more energy efficient. The EU-funded ECHO project aims to improve the performance and efficiency of future multicore processors by enhancing the role of the cache coherence protocol. By adding simple extensions to the cache coherence protocol, it will be possible to reduce misspeculations at the processing core and enable speculative optimisation during compilation.
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Funding Scheme
ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant
Host institution
30003 Murcia
Spain
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30003 Murcia
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