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WCRE
2002
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Estimating Potential Parallelism for Platform Retargeting
Scientific, symbolic, and multimedia applications present diverse computing workloads with different types of inherent parallelism. Tomorrow’s processors will employ varying com...
Linda M. Wills, Tarek M. Taha, Lewis B. Baumstark ...
IEEEPACT
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
The Effect of Program Optimization on Trace Cache Efficiency
Trace cache, an instruction fetch technique that reduces taken branch penalties by storing and fetching program instructions in dynamic execution order, dramatically improves inst...
Derek L. Howard, Mikko H. Lipasti
ISCA
1999
IEEE
98views Hardware» more  ISCA 1999»
14 years 2 months ago
Multicast Snooping: A New Coherence Method Using a Multicast Address Network
This paper proposes a new coherence method called "multicast snooping" that dynamically adapts between broadcast snooping and a directory protocol. Multicast snooping is...
E. Ender Bilir, Ross M. Dickson, Ying Hu, Manoj Pl...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
118views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
14 years 2 months ago
Active Messages: A Mechanism for Integrated Communication and Computation
The design challenge for large-scale multiprocessors is (1) to minimize communication overhead, (2) allow communication to overlap computation, and (3) coordinate the two without ...
Thorsten von Eicken, David E. Culler, Seth Copen G...
SPDP
1996
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Impact Of Load Balancing On Unstructured Adaptive Grid Computations For Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors
The computational requirements for an adaptive solution of unsteady problems change as the simulation progresses. This causes workload imbalance among processors on a parallel mac...
Andrew Sohn, Rupak Biswas, Horst D. Simon