We explore the application of Small-Scale Reconfigurability (SSR) to graphics hardware. SSR is an architectural technique wherein functionality common to multiple subunits is reuse...
Kevin Dale, Jeremy W. Sheaffer, Vinu Vijay Kumar, ...
Some instructions have more impact on processor performance than others. Identification of these critical instructions can be used to modify and improve instruction processing. Pr...
Samantika Subramaniam, Anne Bracy, Hong Wang 0003,...
The emergence of global-scale online services has galvanized scale-out software, characterized by splitting vast datasets and massive computation across many independent servers. ...
Pejman Lotfi-Kamran, Boris Grot, Michael Ferdman, ...
Aggressive technology scaling to 45nm and below introduces serious reliability challenges to the design of microprocessors. Large SRAM structures used for caches are particularly ...
Amin Ansari, Shantanu Gupta, Shuguang Feng, Scott ...
This paper explores area/parallelism tradeo s in the design of distributed shared-memory (DSM) multiprocessors built out of large single-chip computing nodes. In this context, are...