HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
Main memory accesses continue to be a significant bottleneck for applications whose working sets do not fit in second-level caches. With the trend of greater associativity in seco...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
Growth and usage trends for large decision support databases indicate that there is a need for architectures that scale the processing power as the dataset grows. To meet this nee...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
Memorylatency isbecominganincreasingly importantperformance bottleneck, especially in multiprocessors. One technique for tolerating memory latency is multithreading, whereby we sw...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
We consider a variety of dynamic, hardware-based methods for exploiting load/store parallelism, including mechanisms that use memory dependence speculation. While previous work ha...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
We are attacking the memory bottleneck by building a “smart” memory controller that improves effective memory bandwidth, bus utilization, and cache efficiency by letting appl...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
Processor architectures with tens to hundreds of arithmetic units are emerging to handle media processing applications. These applications, such as image coding, image synthesis, ...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
Efficiency of synchronization mechanisms can limit the parallel performance of many shared-memory applications. In addition, the ever increasing performance gap between processor...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
Value prediction is a technique that breaks true data dependences by predicting the outcome of an instruction, and executes speculatively its data-dependent instructions based on ...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
This paper presents flit-reservation flow control, in which control flits traverse the network in advance of data flits, reserving buffers and channel bandwidth. Flit-reservation ...