ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2007
IEEE
Much like multi-storey buildings in densely packed metropolises, three-dimensional (3D) chip structures are envisioned as a viable solution to skyrocketing transistor densities an...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2007
IEEE
We introduce a novel chip fabrication technique called “brick and mortar”, in which chips are made from small, pre-fabricated ASIC bricks and bonded in a designer-specified a...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2007
IEEE
Indirect branches have become increasingly common in modular programs written in modern object-oriented languages and virtualmachine based runtime systems. Unfortunately, the pred...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2007
IEEE
Virtualization has become much more important throughout the computer industry both to improve security and to support multiple workloads on the same hardware with effective isola...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2007
IEEE
This paper presents core fusion, a reconfigurable chip multiprocessor (CMP) architecture where groups of fundamentally independent cores can dynamically morph into a larger CPU, ...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2007
IEEE
We explore the emerging application area of physics-based simulation for computer animation and visual special effects. In particular, we examine its parallelization potential and...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2007
IEEE
The negative performance impact of branch mis-predictions can be reduced by exploiting control independence (CI). When a branch mis-predicts, the wrong-path instructions up to the...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2007
IEEE
Large-scale Internet services require a computing infrastructure that can be appropriately described as a warehouse-sized computing system. The cost of building datacenter facilit...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2007
IEEE
The peak power consumption of hardware components affects their power supply, packaging, and cooling requirements. When the peak power consumption is high, the hardware components...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2007
IEEE
