Microprocessor design is undergoing a major paradigm shift towards multi-core designs, in anticipation that future performance gains will come from exploiting threadlevel parallel...
Richard A. Hankins, Gautham N. Chinya, Jamison D. ...
The sustained push toward smaller and smaller technology sizes has reached a point where device reliability has moved to the forefront of concerns for next-generation designs. Sil...
—This paper introduces the microarchitecture and logical implementation of SMT (Simultaneous Multithreading) improvement of Godson-2 processor which is a 64-bit, four-issue, out-...
This paper presents and characterizes the Princeton Application Repository for Shared-Memory Computers (PARSEC), a benchmark suite for studies of Chip-Multiprocessors (CMPs). Prev...
Christian Bienia, Sanjeev Kumar, Jaswinder Pal Sin...
This paper announces a new software side-channel attack — enabled by the branch prediction capability common to all modern highperformance CPUs. The penalty paid (extra clock cyc...