| 2018 | ICCD | SPF: Selective Pipeline Flush. | Vignyan Reddy Kothinti Naresh, Rami Sheikh, Arthur Perais, Harold W. Cain |
| 2017 | HPCA | PABST: Proportionally Allocated Bandwidth at the Source and Target. | Derek R. Hower, Harold W. Cain, Carl A. Waldspurger |
| 2017 | MICRO | Load value prediction via path-based address prediction: avoiding mispredictions due to conflicting stores. | Rami Sheikh, Harold W. Cain, Raguram Damodaran |
| 2013 | HPCA | RECAP: A region-based cure for the common cold (cache). | Jason Zebchuk, Harold W. Cain, Xin Tong, Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, Andreas Moshovos |
| 2013 | ISCA | Robust architectural support for transactional memory in the power architecture. | Harold W. Cain, Maged M. Michael, Brad Frey, Cathy May, Derek Williams, Hung Q. Le |
| 2012 | HPCA | Cache restoration for highly partitioned virtualized systems. | David Daly, Harold W. Cain |
| 2012 | OOPSLA | Edge chasing delayed consistency: pushing the limits of weak memory models. | Harold W. Cain, Mikko H. Lipasti |
| 2010 | ISPASS | Runahead execution vs. conventional data prefetching in the IBM POWER6 microprocessor. | Harold W. Cain, Priya Nagpurkar |
| 2006 | ISCA | Conditional Memory Ordering. | Christoph von Praun, Harold W. Cain, Jong-Deok Choi, Kyung Dong Ryu |
| 2006 | PLDI | Accurate, efficient, and adaptive calling context profiling. | Xiaotong Zhuang, Mauricio J. Serrano, Harold W. Cain, Jong-Deok Choi |
| 2004 | ISCA | Memory Ordering: A Value-Based Approach. | Harold W. Cain, Mikko H. Lipasti |
| 2002 | SPAA | Verifying sequential consistency using vector clocks. | Harold W. Cain, Mikko H. Lipasti |
| 2001 | HPCA | An Architectural Evaluation of Java TPC-W. | Harold W. Cain, Ravi Rajwar, Morris Marden, Mikko H. Lipasti |
| 2001 | MICRO | Correctly implementing value prediction in microprocessors that support multithreading or multiprocessing. | Milo M. K. Martin, Daniel J. Sorin, Harold W. Cain, Mark D. Hill, Mikko H. Lipasti |
| 2000 | EuroPar | A Callgraph-Based Search Strategy for Automated Performance Diagnosis (Distinguished Paper). | Harold W. Cain, Barton P. Miller, Brian J. N. Wylie |