HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
Several manufacturers have recently announced the first simultaneous-multithreaded processors, both as single CPUs and as components of multi-CPU chips. All are small scale, compr...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
With the scaling of technology and the need for higher performance and more functionality, power dissipation is becoming a major bottleneck for microprocessor designs. Pipeline ba...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper identifies node affinity as an important property for scalable general-purpose locks. Nonuniform communication architectures (NUCAs), for example CCNUMAs built from a f...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
We consider the impact of different communication architectures on the performability (performance + availability) of cluster-based servers. In particular, we use a combination of ...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
Stream processors are high-performance programmable processors optimized to run media applications. Recent work has shown these processors to be more area- and energy-efficient th...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
Java-based middleware, and application servers in particular, are rapidly gaining importance as a new class of workload for commercial multiprocessor servers. SPEC has recognized ...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
Increasing focus on power dissipation issues in current microprocessors has led to a host of proposals for clock gating and other power-saving techniques. While generally effectiv...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
To sustain instruction throughput rates in more aggressively clocked microarchitectures, microarchitects have incorporated larger and more complex branch predictors into their des...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
As the level of chip integration continues to advance at a fast pace, the desire for efficient interconnects-whether on-chip or off-chip--is rapidly increasing. Traditional interc...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
2003
IEEE
Scalability of applications on distributed sharedmemory (DSM) multiprocessors is limited by communication overheads. At some point, using more processors to increase parallelism y...