The increasing demand for reliable computers has led to proposals for hardware-assisted rollback of memory state. Such approach promises major reductions in Mean Time To Repair (M...
Jun Nakano, Pablo Montesinos, Kourosh Gharachorloo...
Hardware counters are a fundamental building block of modern high-performance processors. This paper explores two applications of probabilistic counter updates, in which the outpu...
Processor architects have a challenging task of evaluating a large design space consisting of several interacting parameters and optimizations. In order to assist architects in ma...
P. J. Joseph, Kapil Vaswani, Matthew J. Thazhuthav...
Building processors with large instruction windows has been proposed as a mechanism for overcoming the memory wall, but finding a feasible and implementable design has been an elu...
This paper explores the multi-dimensional design space for chip multiprocessors, exploring the inter-related variables of core count, pipeline depth, superscalar width, L2 cache s...
Yingmin Li, Benjamin C. Lee, David Brooks, Zhigang...