In recent years, the increasing number of processor cores and limited increases in main memory bandwidth have led to the problem of the bandwidth wall, where memory bandwidth is b...
Guangyu Sun, Christopher J. Hughes, Changkyu Kim, ...
Trends in microprocessors of increasing die size and clock speed and decreasing feature sizes have fueled rapidly increasing performance. However, the limited improvements in DRAM...
Jinwoo Suh, Eun-Gyu Kim, Stephen P. Crago, Lakshmi...
Media applications are characterized by large amounts of available parallelism, little data reuse, and a high computation to memory access ratio. While these characteristics are p...
Scott Rixner, William J. Dally, Ujval J. Kapasi, B...
As transistor density continues to grow at an exponential rate in accordance to Moore’s law, the goal for many Chip Multi-Processor (CMP) systems is to scale the number of on-ch...
Brian M. Rogers, Anil Krishna, Gordon B. Bell, Ken...
We expect that many-core microprocessors will push performance per chip from the 10 gigaflop to the 10 teraflop range in the coming decade. To support this increased performance...
Dana Vantrease, Robert Schreiber, Matteo Monchiero...