Adaptive and application dependent runtime guided hardware prefetcher reconfiguration on the IBM Power7

This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under grant TIN2012-34557, the HiPEAC Network of Excellence, by the European Research Council under the European Union’s 7th FP, ERC Grant Agreement n. 321253, and by a joint study agreement between IBM and BSC (number W1361154). Miquel Moreto has been partially supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship number JCI-2012-15047. With the support of the Secretary for Universities and Research of the Ministry of Economy and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia and the Cofund programme of the Marie Curie Actions of the 7th R&D Framework Programme of the European Union (Contract 2013 BP_B 00243)