ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
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...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
This paper presents core fusion, a reconfigurable chip multiprocessor (CMP) architecture where groups of fundamentally independent cores can dynamically morph into a larger CPU, ...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
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...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
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...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
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...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
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...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
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...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) systems reflect choices from three key design dimensions: conflict detection, version management, and conflict resolution. Previously propos...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
Hardware transactional memory has great potential to simplify the creation of correct and efficient multithreaded programs, allowing programmers to exploit more effectively the s...