HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2002
IEEE
Clusters of high-end workstations and PCs are currently used in many application domains to perform large-scale computations or as scalable servers for I/O bound tasks. Although c...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2002
IEEE
Cyclops is a new architecture for high performance parallel computers being developed at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. The basic cell of this architecture is a single-chip...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2002
IEEE
Power dissipation has become one of the most critical factors for the continued development of both high-end and low-end computer systems. The successful design and evaluation of ...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2002
IEEE
As the power consumption of modern highperformance microprocessors increases beyond 100W, power becomes an increasingly important design consideration. This paper presents a novel...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper explores the concept of micro-architectural loops and discusses their impact on processor pipelines. In particular, we establish the relationship between loose loops an...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2003
IEEE
Due to cost, time, and flexibility constraints, simulators are often used to explore the design space when developing a new processor architecture, as well as when evaluating the ...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2003
IEEE
Inherent within complex instruction set architectures such as x86 are inefficiencies that do not exist in a simpler ISAs. Modern x86 implementations decode instructions into one o...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2003
IEEE
Predicated Execution can be used to alleviate the costs associated with frequently mispredicted branches. This is accomplished by trading the cost of a mispredicted branch for exe...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2003
IEEE
Originally developed to connect processors and memories in multicomputers, prior research and design of interconnection networks have focused largely on performance. As these netw...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2003
IEEE