MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
As more data value speculation mechanisms are being proposed to speed-up processors, there is growing pressure on the critical processor structures that must buffer the state of t...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
Clustered machines partition hardware resources to circumvent the cycle time penalties incurred by large, monolithic structures. This partitioning introduces a long inter-cluster ...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
Recent experimental advances have demonstrated technologies capable of supporting scalable quantum computation. A critical next step is how to put those technologies together into...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
Data prefetching via helper threading has been extensively investigated on Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) or Virtual Multi-Threading (VMT) architectures. Although reportedly la...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
Until recently, a steadily rising clock rate and other uniprocessor microarchitectural improvements could be relied upon to consistently deliver increasing performance for a wide ...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
Large numbers of logical registers can improve performance by allowing fast access to multiple subroutine contexts (register windows) and multiple thread contexts (multithreading)...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
An emerging trend in processor design is the addition of short vector instructions to general-purpose and embedded ISAs. Frequently, these extensions are employed using traditiona...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
This paper presents an analysis of the performance of the shader processing units in a modern Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) architecture using real graphic applications. The archi...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
Various architectural power reduction techniques have been proposed for on-chip caches in the last decade. In this paper, we first show that these power reduction techniques can b...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
