APCSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2004
IEEE
Abstract. While the fetch unit has been identified as one of the major bottlenecks of Simultaneous Multithreading architecture, several fetch schemes were proposed by prior works t...
APCSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2004
IEEE
APCSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2004
IEEE
APCSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2004
IEEE
The RAMpage hierarchy moves main memory up a level to replace the lowest-level cache by an equivalent-sized SRAM main memory. This paper is a first look at the value of RAMpage to ...
APCSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2004
IEEE
As device sizes continue shrinking, lower charges are needed to activate gates, and consequently ever smaller external events (such as single ionizing particles of naturally occurr...
APCSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2004
IEEE
In the context of general-purpose processing, an increasing number of diverse functional units are added to cover a wide spectrum of applications. However, it is still possible to ...
APCSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2004
IEEE
Device drivers are a significant source of system instability. In this paper, we make the case for running device drivers at user-level to improve robustness and resource managemen...
APCSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2004
IEEE
We examine secure computing paradigms to identify any new architectural challenges for future general-purpose processors. Some essential security functions can be provided by diffe...
APCSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2004
IEEE
Dynamic optimization presents opportunities for finding run-time bottlenecks and deploying optimizations in statically compiled programs. In this paper, we discuss our current impl...