HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1996
IEEE
Networks of workstations and high-performance microcomputers have been rarely used for running highperformance applicationslike multimedia, simulations,scientific and engineering ...
HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1996
IEEE
HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1996
IEEE
Shared virtual memory is a software technique to provide shared memory on a network of computers without special hardware support. Although several relaxed consistency models and ...
HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1996
IEEE
The current multiprocessors such asCray T3D support interprocessor communication using partitioned dimension-order routers (PDRs). In a PDR implementation, the routing logic and sw...
HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1996
IEEE
In this paper, we propose a cache design that provides the same miss rate as a two-way set associative cache, but with a access time closer to a direct-mapped cache. As with other...
HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1996
IEEE
Exploiting instruction-level parallelism (ILP) is extremely important for achieving high performance in application specific instruction set processors (ASIPs) and embedded process...
HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1996
IEEE
Traditional DMA requires the operating system to perform many tasks to initiate a transfer, with overhead on the order of hundreds or thousands of CPU instructions. This paper des...
HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1996
IEEE
We have investigated the register file requirements of dynamically scheduled processors using register renaming and dispatch queues running the SPEC92 benchmarks. We looked at pro...
HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1996
IEEE
This paper compares several implementations of entry consistency (EC) and lazy release consistency (LRC), two relaxed memory models in use with software distributed shared memory ...