Distributed processors must balance communication and concurrency. When dividing instructions among the processors, key factors are the available concurrency, criticality of depen...
Behnam Robatmili, Katherine E. Coons, Doug Burger,...
PARSEC is a reference application suite used in industry and academia to assess new Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) designs. No investigation to date has profiled PARSEC on real hardwa...
Major Bhadauria, Vincent M. Weaver, Sally A. McKee
Matching regular expressions (regexps) is a very common workload. For example, tokenization, which consists of recognizing words or keywords in a character stream, appears in ever...
Modern network processors support high levels of parallelism in packet processing by supporting multiple threads that execute on a micro-engine. Threads switch context upon encoun...
R. Collins, Fernando Alegre, Xiaotong Zhuang, Sant...
In superscalar architectures, out-of-order issue mechanisms increase performance by dynamically rescheduling instructions that cannot be statically reordered by the compiler. Whil...