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CF
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Computational and storage power optimizations for the O-GEHL branch predictor
In recent years, highly accurate branch predictors have been proposed primarily for high performance processors. Unfortunately such predictors are extremely energy consuming and i...
Kaveh Aasaraai, Amirali Baniasadi, Ehsan Atoofian
CF
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Automated generation of layout and control for quantum circuits
We present a computer-aided design flow for quantum circuits, complete with automatic layout and control logic extraction. To motivate automated layout for quantum circuits, we in...
Mark Whitney, Nemanja Isailovic, Yatish Patel, Joh...
CF
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
By-passing the out-of-order execution pipeline to increase energy-efficiency
Out-of-order execution significantly increases the performance of superscalar processors. The out-of-order execution mechanism is, however, energy-inefficient, which inhibits scal...
Hans Vandierendonck, Philippe Manet, Thibault Dela...
CF
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Parallel genomic sequence-search on a massively parallel system
In the life sciences, genomic databases for sequence search have been growing exponentially in size. As a result, faster sequencesearch algorithms to search these databases contin...
Oystein Thorsen, Brian E. Smith, Carlos P. Sosa, K...
CF
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Accelerating memory decryption and authentication with frequent value prediction
This paper presents a novel architectural technique to hide fetch latency overhead of hardware encrypted and authenticated memory. A number of recent secure processor designs have...
Weidong Shi, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee
CF
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Converting massive TLP to DLP: a special-purpose processor for molecular orbital computations
We propose an application specific processor for computational quantum chemistry. The kernel of interest is the computation of electron repulsion integrals (ERIs), which vary in c...
Tirath Ramdas, Gregory K. Egan, David Abramson, Ki...
CF
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
General floorplan for reversible quantum-dot cellular automata
This paper presents the Collapsed Bennett Layout, a general purpose floorplan for reversible quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) circuits. In order to exploit the full density and...
Sarah E. Murphy, Erik DeBenedictis, Peter M. Kogge
CF
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Identifying potential parallelism via loop-centric profiling
The transition to multithreaded, multi-core designs places a greater responsibility on programmers and software for improving performance; thread-level parallelism (TLP) will be i...
Tipp Moseley, Daniel A. Connors, Dirk Grunwald, Ra...
CF
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Unified microprocessor core storage
The organization and management of microprocessor storage structures (e.g., L1 caches, TLBs, etc.) is critical to the performance and energy consumption of the microprocessor. We ...
Albert Meixner, Daniel J. Sorin
CF
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Massively parallel processing on a chip
MppSoC is a SIMD architecture composed of a grid of processors and memories connected by a X-Net neighbourhood network and a general purpose global router. MppSoC is an evolution ...
Philippe Marquet, Simon Duquennoy, Sébastie...