AL-ZAWAWI, AHMED SAMI. Transparent Control Independence (TCI). (Under the direction of Dr. Eric Rotenberg). Superscalar architectures have been proposed that exploit control indep...
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High availability is an increasingly important requirement for enterprise systems, often valued more than performance. Systems designed for high availability typically use redunda...
Nidhi Aggarwal, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Norman ...
The recently released SPEC CPU2006 benchmark suite is expected to be used by computer designers and computer architecture researchers for pre-silicon early design analysis. Partia...
The ability to perform long, accurate molecular dynamics (MD) simulations involving proteins and other biological macromolecules could in principle provide answers to some of the ...
David E. Shaw, Martin M. Deneroff, Ron O. Dror, Je...
ACE analysis is a technique to provide an early reliability estimate for microprocessors. ACE analysis couples data from performance models with low level design details to identi...
Software cache-based side channel attacks are a serious new class of threats for computers. Unlike physical side channel attacks that mostly target embedded cryptographic devices,...
Transient faults due to particle strikes are a key challenge in microprocessor design. Driven by exponentially increasing transistor counts, per-chip faults are a growing burden. ...
Kristen R. Walcott, Greg Humphreys, Sudhanva Gurum...
Process variation affects processor pipelines by making some stages slower and others faster, therefore exacerbating pipeline unbalance. This reduces the frequency attainable by t...
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Concern for the increasing susceptibility of processor structures to transient errors has led to several recent research efforts that propose architectural techniques to enhance r...