HPCA
1995
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
1995
IEEE
HPCA
1995
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
1995
IEEE
In this paper we consider several hardware implementations of the general-purpose atomic primitives fetch and Φ, compare and swap, load linked, and store conditionalon large-scal...
HPCA
1995
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
1995
IEEE
As processor speeds increase relative to memory speeds, memory bandwidth is rapidly becoming the limiting performance factor for many applications. Several approaches to bridging ...
HPCA
1995
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
1995
IEEE
—Reducing communication latency, which is a performance bottleneck in optically interconnected multiprocessor systems, is of prominent importance. A conventional approach for est...
HPCA
1995
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
1995
IEEE
Shared memory is an appealing abstraction for parallel programming. It must be implemented with caches in order toperform well, however, and caches require a coherence mechanism t...
HPCA
1995
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
1995
IEEE
Information on the behavior of programs is essential for deciding the number and nature of functional units in high performance architectures. In this paper, we present studies on...
HPCA
1995
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
1995
IEEE
The throughput of a multiple-pipelined processor suffers due to lack of sufficient instructions to make multiple pipelines busy and due to delays associated with pipeline depende...