ISCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
1995
IEEE
One can e ectively utilize predicated execution to improve branch handling in instruction-level parallel processors. Although the potential bene ts of predicated execution are hig...
ISCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
1995
IEEE
Latency tolerance is essential in achieving high performance on parallel computers for remote function calls and fine-grained remote memory accesses. EM-X supports interprocessor ...
ISCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
1995
IEEE
The PowerPC 620TM microprocessor1 is the most recent and performance leading member of the PowerPCTM family. The 64-bit PowerPC 620 microprocessor employs a two-phase branch predi...
ISCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
1995
IEEE
Accurate instruction fetch and branch prediction is increasingly important on today’s wide-issue architectures. Fetch prediction is the process of determining the next instructi...
ISCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
1995
IEEE
Recent superscalar processors issue four instructions per cycle. These processors are also powered by highly-parallel superscalar cores. The potential performance can only be expl...
ISCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
1995
IEEE
For many programs, especially integer codes, untolerated load instruction latencies account for a significant portion of total execution time. In this paper, we present the desig...
ISCA
1995
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
1995
IEEE
Speculative execution is execution of instructions before it is known whether these instructions should be executed. Compiler-based speculative execution has the potential to achi...
MICRO
1997
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
1997
IEEE
Profile data is valuable for identifying performance bottlenecks and guiding optimizations. Periodic sampling of a processor's performance monitoring hardware is an effective...
ICES
1995
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
1995
Springer
ICECCS
1995
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
1995
IEEE