HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Stream processors are high-performance programmable processors optimized to run media applications. Recent work has shown these processors to be more area- and energy-efficient th...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Java-based middleware, and application servers in particular, are rapidly gaining importance as a new class of workload for commercial multiprocessor servers. SPEC has recognized ...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Increasing focus on power dissipation issues in current microprocessors has led to a host of proposals for clock gating and other power-saving techniques. While generally effectiv...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
To sustain instruction throughput rates in more aggressively clocked microarchitectures, microarchitects have incorporated larger and more complex branch predictors into their des...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
As the level of chip integration continues to advance at a fast pace, the desire for efficient interconnects-whether on-chip or off-chip--is rapidly increasing. Traditional interc...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Scalability of applications on distributed sharedmemory (DSM) multiprocessors is limited by communication overheads. At some point, using more processors to increase parallelism y...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
A challenging issue in today's server systems is to transparently deal with failures and application-imposed requirements for continuous operation. In this paper we address t...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Although caches for decades have been the backbone of the memory system, the speed gap between CPU and main memory suggests their augmentation with prefetching mechanisms. Recentl...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
To continue to improve processor performance, microarchitects seek to increase the effective instruction level parallelism (ILP) that can be exploited in applications. A fundament...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
We present an active switch architecture to improve the performance of systems connected via system area networks. Our programmable active switches not only flexibly route packets...