Caches have become increasingly important with the widening gap between main memory and processor speeds. However, they are a source of unpredictability due to their characteristi...
Processor and memory technology trends portend a continual increase in the relative cost of accessing main memory. Machine designers have tried to mitigate the effect of this tren...
Clustered microarchitectures are an effective organization to deal with the problem of wire delays and complexity by partitioning some of the processor resources. The organization ...
Clustering is a common technique to overcome the wire delay problem incurred by the evolution of technology. Fully-distributed architectures, where the register file, the functio...
— Driven by the need for higher bandwidth and complexity reduction, off-chip interconnect has evolved from proprietary busses to networked architectures. A similar evolution is o...
Paul Gratz, Changkyu Kim, Robert G. McDonald, Step...