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8,255,633
List based prefetch
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08/28/2012
US patent application 12/696,825
Boyle, Peter (Edinburgh, GB); Christ, Norman (Irvington, NY); Gara, Alan (Yorktown Heights, NY); Kim;,Changhoan (San Jose, CA); Mawhinney, Robert (New York, NY); Ohmacht, Martin (Yorktown Heights, NY); Sugavanam, Krishnan (Yorktown Heights, NY)
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
USDOE
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International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
A list prefetch engine improves a performance of a parallel computing system. The list prefetch engine receives a current cache miss address. The list prefetch engine evaluates whether the current cache miss address is valid. If the current cache miss address is valid, the list prefetch engine compares the current cache miss address and a list address. A list address represents an address in a list. A list describes an arbitrary sequence of prior cache miss addresses. The prefetch engine prefetches data according to the list, if there is a match between the current cache miss address and the list address.

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