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HPCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Datapath Design for a VLIW Video Signal Processor
This paper represents a design study of the datapath for a very long instruction word (VLIW) video signal processor (VSP). VLIW architectures provide high parallelism and excellen...
Andrew Wolfe, Jason Fritts, Santanu Dutta, Edil S....
HPCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
ATM and Fast Ethernet Network Interfaces for User-Level Communication
Fast Ethernet and ATM are two attractive network technologies for interconnecting workstation clusters for parallel and distributed computing. This paper compares network interfac...
Matt Welsh, Anindya Basu, Thorsten von Eicken
HPCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Global Address Space, Non-Uniform Bandwidth: A Memory System Performance Characterization of Parallel Systems
Many parallel systems offer a simple view of memory: all storage cells are addresseduniformly. Despite a uniform view of the memory, the machines differsignificantly in theirmemo...
Thomas Stricker, Thomas R. Gross
HPCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Design Issues and Tradeoffs for Write Buffers
Processors with write-through caches typically require a write buffer to hide the write latency to the next level of memory hierarchy and to reduce write traffic. A write buffer ...
Kevin Skadron, Douglas W. Clark
HPCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
A Performance Comparison of Hierarchical Ring- and Mesh-Connected Multiprocessor Networks
This paper compares the performance of hierarchical ring- and mesh-connected wormhole routed shared memory multiprocessor networks in a simulation study. Hierarchical rings are in...
Govindan Ravindran, Michael Stumm
HPCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Software-Managed Address Translation
In this paper we explore software-managed address translation. The purpose of the study is to specify the memory management design for a high clock-rate PowerPC implementation in ...
Bruce L. Jacob, Trevor N. Mudge
HPCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Architectural Support for Compiler-Synthesized Dynamic Branch Prediction Strategies: Rationale and Initial Results
This paper introduces a new architectural approach that supports compiler-synthesized dynamic branch predication. In compiler-synthesized dynamic branch prediction, the compiler g...
David I. August, Daniel A. Connors, John C. Gyllen...
JSSPP
1998
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Dynamic Coscheduling on Workstation Clusters
Patrick Sobalvarro, Scott Pakin, William E. Weihl,...