Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) seeks to improve the computation throughput of a processor core by sharing primary resources such as functional units, issue bandwidth, and cache...
Tipp Moseley, Dirk Grunwald, Joshua L. Kihm, Danie...
Value Prediction is a relatively new technique to increase instruction-level parallelism by breaking true data dependence chains. A value prediction architecture produces values, ...
This paper proposes and evaluates new synchronization schemes for a simultaneous multithreaded processor. We present a scalable mechanism that permits threads to cheaply synchroni...
Dean M. Tullsen, Jack L. Lo, Susan J. Eggers, Henr...
Violations of a number of common safety properties of multithreaded programs–such as atomicity and absence of dataraces–cannot be observed by looking at the linear execution t...
Koushik Sen, Abhay Vardhan, Gul Agha, Grigore Rosu
In this paper, we look at two issues which could affect the performance of value prediction on wide-issue ILP processors. One is the large number of accesses to the value predicti...