Virtualization has become much more important throughout the computer industry both to improve security and to support multiple workloads on the same hardware with effective isola...
This paper presents core fusion, a reconfigurable chip multiprocessor (CMP) architecture where groups of fundamentally independent cores can dynamically morph into a larger CPU, ...
Engin Ipek, Meyrem Kirman, Nevin Kirman, Jos&eacut...
We explore the emerging application area of physics-based simulation for computer animation and visual special effects. In particular, we examine its parallelization potential and...
Christopher J. Hughes, Radek Grzeszczuk, Eftychios...
The negative performance impact of branch mis-predictions can be reduced by exploiting control independence (CI). When a branch mis-predicts, the wrong-path instructions up to the...
Large-scale Internet services require a computing infrastructure that can be appropriately described as a warehouse-sized computing system. The cost of building datacenter facilit...
The peak power consumption of hardware components affects their power supply, packaging, and cooling requirements. When the peak power consumption is high, the hardware components...
Bruno Diniz, Dorgival Olavo Guedes Neto, Wagner Me...
While Sequential Consistency (SC) is the most intuitive memory consistency model and the one most programmers likely assume, current multiprocessors do not support it. Instead, th...
Luis Ceze, James Tuck, Pablo Montesinos, Josep Tor...
Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) systems reflect choices from three key design dimensions: conflict detection, version management, and conflict resolution. Previously propos...
Jayaram Bobba, Kevin E. Moore, Haris Volos, Luke Y...
Hardware transactional memory has great potential to simplify the creation of correct and efficient multithreaded programs, allowing programmers to exploit more effectively the s...
Colin Blundell, Joe Devietti, E. Christopher Lewis...