HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Processors that can simultaneously execute multiple paths of execution will only exacerbate the fetch bandwidth problem already plaguing conventional processors. On a multiple-pat...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
This paper proposes and evaluates new synchronization schemes for a simultaneous multithreaded processor. We present a scalable mechanism that permits threads to cheaply synchroni...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Declustered data organizations in disk arrays (RAIDs) achieve less-intrusive reconstruction of data after a disk failure. We present PDDL, a new data layout for declustered disk a...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Control independence has been put forward as a significant new source of instruction-level parallelism for future generation processors. However, its performance potential under p...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
We propose Instruction-based Prediction as a means to optimize directory-based cache coherent NUMA shared-memory. Instruction-based prediction is based on observing the behavior o...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
This work presents and evaluates a novel processor microarchitecture which combines two paradigms: access/ execute decoupling and simultaneous multithreading. We investigate how b...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Cache coherence protocols of current shared-memory multiprocessors are difficult to verify. Our previous work proposed an extension of Lamport's logical clocks for showing th...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Processor speeds are increasing rapidly, and memory speeds are not keeping up. Streaming computations (such as multi-media or scientific applications) are among those whose perfor...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Impulse is a new memory system architecture that adds two important features to a traditional memory controller. First, Impulse supports application-specific optimizations through...