HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 7 days ago
2000
IEEE
Processor architectures with tens to hundreds of arithmetic units are emerging to handle media processing applications. These applications, such as image coding, image synthesis, ...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 7 days ago
2000
IEEE
Efficiency of synchronization mechanisms can limit the parallel performance of many shared-memory applications. In addition, the ever increasing performance gap between processor...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 7 days ago
2000
IEEE
Value prediction is a technique that breaks true data dependences by predicting the outcome of an instruction, and executes speculatively its data-dependent instructions based on ...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 7 days ago
2000
IEEE
This paper presents flit-reservation flow control, in which control flits traverse the network in advance of data flits, reserving buffers and channel bandwidth. Flit-reservation ...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 7 days ago
2000
IEEE
Abstract—Sharing patterns in shared-memory multiprocessors are the key to performance: uniprocessor latencytolerating techniques such as out-of-order execution and non-blocking c...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 7 days ago
2000
IEEE
Prefetching offers the potential to improve the performance of linked data structure (LDS) traversals. However, previously proposed prefetching methods only work well when there i...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 7 days ago
2000
IEEE
This paper describes a new instruction-supply mechanism, called the eXtended Block Cache (XBC). The goal of the XBC is to improve on the Trace Cache (TC) hit rate, while providing...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 7 days ago
2000
IEEE
Clustered microarchitectures are an effective approach to reducing the penalties caused by wire delays inside a chip. Current superscalar processors have in fact a two-cluster mic...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 7 days ago
2000
IEEE
The paper presents PowerMANNA - a distributed-memory parallel computer system based on the 64-Bit PowerPC processor MPC620. The PowerMANNA node architecture supports all the sophi...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 7 days ago
2000
IEEE
With increasing chip densities, future microprocessor designs have the opportunity to integrate many of the traditional systemlevel modules onto the same chip as the processor. So...