ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
As the number of cores per die increases, be they processors, memory blocks, or custom accelerators, the on-chip interconnect the cores use to communicate gains importance. We beg...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Efficiently utilizing off-chip DRAM bandwidth is a critical issue in designing cost-effective, high-performance chip multiprocessors (CMPs). Conventional memory controllers deli...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
There is still much performance to be gained by out-of-order processors with wider issue widths. However, traditional methods of increasing issue width do not scale; that is, they...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Recently, Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures have gained popularity to address the interconnect delay problem for designing CMP / multi-core / SoC systems in deep sub-micron tech...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Modern processors rely on memory dependence prediction to execute load instructions as early as possible, speculating that they are not dependent on an earlier, unissued store. To...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Writing shared-memory parallel programs is error-prone. Among the concurrency errors that programmers often face are atomicity violations, which are especially challenging. They h...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Multicore processors have emerged as a powerful platform on which to efficiently exploit thread-level parallelism (TLP). However, due to Amdahl’s Law, such designs will be incr...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
As CMOS technology scales and more transistors are packed on to the same chip, soft error reliability has become an increasingly important design issue for processors. Prior resea...
ISCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Server storage systems use a large number of disks to achieve high performance, thereby consuming a significant amount of power. In this paper, we propose to significantly reduc...