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ISLPED
2007
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Resource area dilation to reduce power density in throughput servers
Throughput servers using simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processors are becoming an important paradigm with products such as Sun's Niagara and IBM Power5. Unfortunately, thr...
Michael D. Powell, T. N. Vijaykumar
ICCD
2008
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Energy-aware opcode design
— Embedded processors are required to achieve high performance while running on batteries. Thus, they must exploit all the possible means available to reduce energy consumption w...
Balaji V. Iyer, Jason A. Poovey, Thomas M. Conte
CASES
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient vectorization of SIMD programs with non-aligned and irregular data access hardware
Automatic vectorization of programs for partitioned-ALU SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) processors has been difficult because of not only data dependency issues but also n...
Hoseok Chang, Wonyong Sung
ISPASS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Measuring Program Similarity: Experiments with SPEC CPU Benchmark Suites
Performance evaluation using only a subset of programs from a benchmark suite is commonplace in computer architecture research. This is especially true during early design space e...
Aashish Phansalkar, Ajay Joshi, Lieven Eeckhout, L...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
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14 years 14 days ago
Design Tradeoffs for the Alpha EV8 Conditional Branch Predictor
This paper presents the Alpha EV8 conditional branch predictor. The Alpha EV8 microprocessor project, canceled in June 2001 in a late phase of development, envisioned an aggressiv...
André Seznec, Stephen Felix, Venkata Krishn...