Robert H. Bell

System, method and computer program product for data transfer management

Enhanced coherency tracking with implementation of region victim hash for region coherence arrays

Determining server write activity levels to use to adjust write cache size

Method and apparatus for evaluating integrated circuit design performance using basic block vectors, cycles per instruction (CPI) information and microarchitecture dependent information

Method and apparatus for evaluating integrated circuit design model performance using basic block vectors and fly-by vectors including microarchitecture dependent information

Method and apparatus for evaluating integrated circuit design performance using enhanced basic block vectors that include data dependent information

Pipelining D states for MRU steerage during MRU-LRU member allocation

Variable store gather window

Cache member protection with partial make MRU allocation

Benchmark synthesis using workload statistics

Processor and data processing system employing a variable store gather window

Method and cache system with soft I-MRU member protection scheme during make MRU allocation

Variable store gather window

Fault tolerant encoding of directory states for stuck bits

Method and system for handling stuck bits in cache directories

Cache mechanism and method for avoiding cast out on bad victim select and recycling victim select operation

Cache member protection with partial make MRU allocation

Pipelining D states for MRU steerage during MRU/LRU member allocation

Processor, method, and data processing system employing a variable store gather window

Benchmark synthesis using workload statistics

Method and system for specualtively sending processor-issued store operations to a store queue with full signal asserted