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1998
IEEE
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Multi-Level Texture Caching for 3D Graphics Hardware
Traditional graphics hardware architectures implement what we call the push architecture for texture mapping. Local memory is dedicated to the accelerator for fast local retrieval...
Michael Cox, Narendra Bhandri, Michael Shantz
ISCA
1998
IEEE
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Design Choices in the SHRIMP System: An Empirical Study
The SHRIMP cluster-computing system has progressed to a point of relative maturity; a variety of applications are running on a 16-node system. We have enough experience to underst...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Richard Alpert, Yuqun Chen, ...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
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Integrated Predicated and Speculative Execution in the IMPACT EPIC Architecture
Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architectures require the compiler to express program instruction level parallelism directly to the hardware. EPIC techniques whic...
David I. August, Daniel A. Connors, Scott A. Mahlk...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
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Declustered Disk Array Architectures with Optimal and Near-Optimal Parallelism
This paper investigates the placement of data and parity on redundant disk arrays. Declustered organizations have been traditionally used to achieve fast reconstruction of a faile...
Guillermo A. Alvarez, Walter A. Burkhard, Larry J....
ISCA
1998
IEEE
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Computer Structures: What Have We Learned from the PDP-11?
Gordon Bell, William D. Strecker
ISCA
1998
IEEE
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An Evaluation of Directory Schemes for Cache Coherence
Anant Agarwal, Richard Simoni, John L. Hennessy, M...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
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Memory System Characterization of Commercial Workloads
Commercial applications such as databases and Web servers constitute the largest and fastest-growing segment of the market for multiprocessor servers. Ongoing innovations in disk ...
Luiz André Barroso, Kourosh Gharachorloo, E...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
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The MIT Alewife Machine: Architecture and Performance
Alewife is a multiprocessor architecture that supports up to 512 processing nodes connected over a scalable and cost-effective mesh network at a constant cost per node. The MIT Al...
Anant Agarwal, Ricardo Bianchini, David Chaiken, K...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
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Weak Ordering - A New Definition
A memory model for a shared memory, multiprocessor commonly and often implicitly assumed by programmers is that of sequential consistency. This model guarantees that all memory ac...
Sarita V. Adve, Mark D. Hill