Branch Prediction Contest Results

This page gives the results of the branch prediction competition held in CS 5513 in Fall 2009. Eleven competitors provided source code. The MPKIs of these were:

               MPKI         MPKI
               non-dist	    dist
Competitor #1  3.085        3.653
Competitor #2  3.222        3.754
Competitor #3  3.338        3.887
Competitor #4  3.384        3.971
Competitor #5  3.405        4.002
Competitor #6  3.458        4.044
Competitor #7  3.888        4.500
Competitor #8  4.091        4.653
Competitor #9  6.055        6.576
Competitor #10 71.647       86.183
Competitor #11 71.730       86.311

Competitors' code was tested on the distributed traces as well as a set of non-distributed traces to guard against overfitting. The winner of the contest scored the lowest MPKI on both sets of traces.

The Winner

And the winner of the Fall 2009 CS 5513 branch prediction competition is: Khalid Zaman. Congratulations!