HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
This work presents and evaluates a novel processor microarchitecture which combines two paradigms: access/ execute decoupling and simultaneous multithreading. We investigate how b...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Cache coherence protocols of current shared-memory multiprocessors are difficult to verify. Our previous work proposed an extension of Lamport's logical clocks for showing th...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Processor speeds are increasing rapidly, and memory speeds are not keeping up. Streaming computations (such as multi-media or scientific applications) are among those whose perfor...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Impulse is a new memory system architecture that adds two important features to a traditional memory controller. First, Impulse supports application-specific optimizations through...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Researchers have searched for scalable alternatives to the symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) architecture since it was first introduced in 1982. This paper introduces an alternative ...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
In general-purpose microprocessors, recent trends have pushed towards 64-bit word widths, primarily to accommodate the large addressing needs of some programs. Many integer proble...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Much research has been done in fast communication on clusters and in protocols for supporting software shared memory across them. However, the end performance of applications that...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs) connected with low-latency networks provide attractive building blocks for software distributed shared memory systems. Two distinct approaches hav...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Previous simulators for shared-memory architectures have imposed a large tradeoff between simulation accuracy and speed. Most such simulators model simple processors that do not e...