The performance impact of the Physical Register File (PRF) size on Simultaneous Multithreading processors has not been extensively studied in spite of being a critical shared reso...
Throughput servers using simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processors are becoming an important paradigm with products such as Sun's Niagara and IBM Power5. Unfortunately, thr...
Helper threading is a technique that utilizes a second core or logical processor in a multi-threaded system to improve the performance of the main thread. A helper thread executes...
Recently, graphics processing units, or GPUs, have become a viable alternative as commodity, parallel hardware for generalpurpose computing, due to their massive data-parallelism,...
Ke Yang, Bingsheng He, Rui Fang, Mian Lu, Naga K. ...
The current trend is for processors to deliver dramatic improvements in parallel performance while only modestly improving serial performance. Parallel performance is harvested th...
Sanjeev Kumar, Daehyun Kim, Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Y...