HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
Recent advances in statistical inference and machine learning close the divide between simulation and classical optimization, thereby enabling more rigorous and robust microarchit...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
Converged fabrics that support data, storage, and cluster networking in a unified fashion are desirable for their cost and manageability advantages. Recent trends towards higher-b...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
As multicore systems become the dominant mainstream computing technology, one of the most difficult challenges the industry faces is the software. Applications with large amounts ...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
Serializing instructions (SIs), such as writes to control registers, have many complex dependencies, and are difficult to execute out-of-order (OoO). To avoid unnecessary complexi...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
We apply Amdahl's Law to multicore chips using symmetric cores, asymmetric cores, and dynamic techniques that allows cores to work together on sequential execution. To Amdahl...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
The interconnect mechanisms (shared bus or crossbar) used in current chip-multiprocessors (CMPs) are expected to become a bottleneck that prevents these architectures from scaling...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
The trend towards integrating multiple cores on the same die has accentuated the need for larger on-chip caches. Such large caches are constructed as a multitude of smaller cache ...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
Designing thermal management policies for today's power-dense server clusters is currently a challenge, since it is difficult to predict the exact temperature and performance...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
Power control is becoming a key challenge for effectively operating a modern data center. In addition to reducing operating costs, precisely controlling power consumption is an es...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
Portable, embedded systems place ever-increasing demands on high-performance, low-power microprocessor design. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is a well-known techniq...