Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) increases processor throughput by multiplexing resources among several threads. Despite the commercial availability of SMT processors, several as...
The industry is rapidly moving towards the adoption of Chip Multi-Processors (CMPs) of Simultaneous MultiThreaded (SMT) cores for general purpose systems. The most prominent use o...
Ali El-Moursy, R. Garg, David H. Albonesi, Sandhya...
Most microprocessor chips today use an out-of-order instruction execution mechanism. This mechanism allows superscalar processors to extract reasonably high levels of instruction ...
Caches are designed to provide the best tradeoff between access speed and capacity for a set of target applications. Unfortunately, different applications, and even different phas...
Mispredicted branches and loads that miss in the cache cause the majority of retirement stalls experienced by sequential processors; we call these critical instructions. Despite t...