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HPCA
2012
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
BulkSMT: Designing SMT processors for atomic-block execution
Multiprocessor architectures that continuously execute atomic blocks (or chunks) of instructions can improve performance and software productivity. However, all of the prior propo...
Xuehai Qian, Benjamin Sahelices, Josep Torrellas
ISCA
2011
IEEE
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13 years 4 months ago
FlexBulk: intelligently forming atomic blocks in blocked-execution multiprocessors to minimize squashes
Blocked-execution multiprocessor architectures continuously run atomic blocks of instructions — also called Chunks. Such architectures can boost both performance and software pr...
Rishi Agarwal, Josep Torrellas