Speculative execution of information gathering plans can dramatically reduce the effect of source I/O latencies on overall performance. However, the utility of speculation is clos...
Commercial applications are an important, yet often overlooked, workload with significantly different characteristics from technical workloads. The potential impact of these diffe...
Kimberly Keeton, David A. Patterson, Yong Qiang He...
— Modern CPUs operate at GHz frequencies, but the latencies of memory accesses are still relatively large, in the order of hundreds of cycles. Deeper cache hierarchies with large...
Konrad Malkowski, Greg M. Link, Padma Raghavan, Ma...
— To address the performance limitation brought by the scaling issues of on-chip global wires, a new configuration for global wiring using on-chip lossy transmission lines is pr...
Most microprocessor chips today use an out-of-order instruction execution mechanism. This mechanism allows superscalar processors to extract reasonably high levels of instruction ...