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PDPTA
2000
13 years 8 months ago
2000
Abstract In this paper, we propose a microprocessor architecture which eciently utilizes nextgeneration semiconductor technology. While the technology makes it possible to integrat...
ISLPED
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2007
ACM
Throughput servers using simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processors are becoming an important paradigm with products such as Sun's Niagara and IBM Power5. Unfortunately, thr...
HPCA
2001
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2001
IEEE
Mispredicted branches and loads that miss in the cache cause the majority of retirement stalls experienced by sequential processors; we call these critical instructions. Despite t...
ASPLOS
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2000
ACM
Simultaneous Multithreading machines fetch and execute instructions from multiple instruction streams to increase system utilization and speedup the execution of jobs. When there ...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2004
IEEE
This paper proposes and evaluates hardware mechanisms for supporting prescient instruction prefetch--an approach to improving single-threaded application performance by using help...