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HPCA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
WildFire: A Scalable Path for SMPs
Researchers have searched for scalable alternatives to the symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) architecture since it was first introduced in 1982. This paper introduces an alternative ...
Erik Hagersten, Michael Koster
HPCA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Dynamically Exploiting Narrow Width Operands to Improve Processor Power and Performance
In general-purpose microprocessors, recent trends have pushed towards 64-bit word widths, primarily to accommodate the large addressing needs of some programs. Many integer proble...
David Brooks, Margaret Martonosi
HPCA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Limits to the Performance of Software Shared Memory: A Layered Approach
Much research has been done in fast communication on clusters and in protocols for supporting software shared memory across them. However, the end performance of applications that...
Angelos Bilas, Dongming Jiang, Yuanyuan Zhou, Jasw...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Comparative Evaluation of Fine- and Coarse-Grain Approaches for Software Distributed Shared Memory
Symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs) connected with low-latency networks provide attractive building blocks for software distributed shared memory systems. Two distinct approaches hav...
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Leonidas ...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Improving the Accuracy vs. Speed Tradeoff for Simulating Shared-Memory Multiprocessors with ILP Processors
Previous simulators for shared-memory architectures have imposed a large tradeoff between simulation accuracy and speed. Most such simulators model simple processors that do not e...
Murthy Durbhakula, Vijay S. Pai, Sarita V. Adve