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HPCA
2000
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Coherence Communication Prediction in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
Abstract—Sharing patterns in shared-memory multiprocessors are the key to performance: uniprocessor latencytolerating techniques such as out-of-order execution and non-blocking c...
Stefanos Kaxiras, Cliff Young
HPCA
2000
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Prefetching Technique for Irregular Accesses to Linked Data Structures
Prefetching offers the potential to improve the performance of linked data structure (LDS) traversals. However, previously proposed prefetching methods only work well when there i...
Magnus Karlsson, Fredrik Dahlgren, Per Stenstr&oum...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
eXtended Block Cache
This paper describes a new instruction-supply mechanism, called the eXtended Block Cache (XBC). The goal of the XBC is to improve on the Trace Cache (TC) hit rate, while providing...
Stéphan Jourdan, Lihu Rappoport, Yoav Almog...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Dynamic Cluster Assignment Mechanisms
Clustered microarchitectures are an effective approach to reducing the penalties caused by wire delays inside a chip. Current superscalar processors have in fact a two-cluster mic...
Ramon Canal, Joan-Manuel Parcerisa, Antonio Gonz&a...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
PowerMANNA: A Parallel Architecture Based on the PowerPC MPC620
The paper presents PowerMANNA - a distributed-memory parallel computer system based on the 64-Bit PowerPC processor MPC620. The PowerMANNA node architecture supports all the sophi...
Peter M. Behr, S. Pletner, Angela C. Sodan
HPCA
2000
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Impact of Chip-Level Integration on Performance of OLTP Workloads
With increasing chip densities, future microprocessor designs have the opportunity to integrate many of the traditional systemlevel modules onto the same chip as the processor. So...
Luiz André Barroso, Kourosh Gharachorloo, A...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Impact of Heterogeneity on DSM Performance
This paper explores area/parallelism tradeo s in the design of distributed shared-memory (DSM) multiprocessors built out of large single-chip computing nodes. In this context, are...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, José A. B. Fortes