MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2002
IEEE
Convergent scheduling is a general framework for instruction scheduling and cluster assignment for parallel, clustered architectures. A convergent scheduler is composed of many ind...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2002
IEEE
On-chip caches represent a sizeable fraction of the total power consumption of microprocessors. Although large caches can significantly improve performance, they have the potentia...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2002
IEEE
Power consumption and power density for the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) are important considerations not only in its design, but can have a consequence on cache design as w...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2002
IEEE
Research has shown that precomputation microthreads can be useful for improving branch prediction and prefetching. However, it is not obvious how to provide the necessary microarc...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper introduces the Simulation Architecture Description Language (SADL) developed at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center to...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2002
IEEE
In this paper, we consider the tree task graphs which arise from many important programming paradigms such as divide and conquer, branch and bound etc., and the linear task-graphs...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2002
IEEE
Traditional vector architectures have shown to be very effective for regular codes where the compiler can detect data-level parallelism. However, this SIMD parallelism is also pre...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2002
IEEE
COMPUTER
1998
13 years 6 months ago
1998
ion layer3,4 hides hardware particulars from the higher levels of software but can also compromise performance and compatibility; the higher levels of software often make unwitting...
SIGMETRICS
2000
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2000
ACM
Previous studies measuring the performance of general-purpose operating systems running large-scale Internet server applications, such as proxy caches, have identified design defi...