ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
Modern processors improve instruction level parallelism by speculation. The outcome of data and control decisions is predicted, and the operations are speculatively executed and o...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
Pipeline flushes due to branch mispredictions is one of the most serious problems facing the designer of a deeply pipelined, superscalar processor. Many branch predictors have bee...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
The design challenge for large-scale multiprocessors is (1) to minimize communication overhead, (2) allow communication to overlap computation, and (3) coordinate the two without ...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
Computer systems have become powerful enough to process continuous data streams such as video or animated graphics. While processing power and communication bandwidth of today...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
Indirect branch prediction is likely to become increasingly important in the future because indirect branches occur more frequently in object-oriented programs. With misprediction ...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
For maximum performance, an out-of-order processor must issue load instructions as early as possible, while avoiding memory-order violations with prior store instructions that wri...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
Traditional graphics hardware architectures implement what we call the push architecture for texture mapping. Local memory is dedicated to the accelerator for fast local retrieval...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
The SHRIMP cluster-computing system has progressed to a point of relative maturity; a variety of applications are running on a 16-node system. We have enough experience to underst...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architectures require the compiler to express program instruction level parallelism directly to the hardware. EPIC techniques whic...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper investigates the placement of data and parity on redundant disk arrays. Declustered organizations have been traditionally used to achieve fast reconstruction of a faile...