HPCA
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 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
13 years 11 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
13 years 11 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
13 years 11 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
13 years 11 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
13 years 11 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
13 years 11 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
13 years 11 months ago
1999
IEEE
HPCA
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 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
13 years 11 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...