HPCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 11 months ago
2012
IEEE
Since the onset of pipelined processors, balancing the delay of the microarchitectural pipeline stages such that each microarchitectural pipeline stage has an equal delay has been...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 11 months ago
2012
IEEE
Recent research on memory disaggregation introduces a new architectural building block—the memory blade—as a cost-effective approach for memory capacity expansion and sharing ...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 11 months ago
2012
IEEE
The least recently used (LRU) replacement policy performs poorly in the last-level cache (LLC) because temporal locality of memory accesses is filtered by first and second level...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 11 months ago
2012
IEEE
Data races are a major contributor to parallel software unreliability. A type of race that is both common and typically harmful is the Asymmetric data race. It occurs when at leas...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 11 months ago
2012
IEEE
Large-scale CMPs with hundreds of cores require a directory-based protocol to maintain cache coherence. However, previously proposed coherence directories are hard to scale beyond...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 11 months ago
2012
IEEE
Main memory latencies have always been a concern for system performance. Given that reads are on the critical path for CPU progress, reads must be prioritized over writes. However...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 11 months ago
2012
IEEE
Conventional out-of-order processors that use a unified physical register file allocate and reclaim registers explicitly using a free list that operates as a circular queue. We ...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 11 months ago
2012
IEEE
Multiprocessor architectures that continuously execute atomic blocks (or chunks) of instructions can improve performance and software productivity. However, all of the prior propo...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 11 months ago
2012
IEEE
Modern memory systems rely on spatial locality to provide high bandwidth while minimizing memory device power and cost. The trend of increasing the number of cores that share memo...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 11 months ago
2012
IEEE
Lowering supply voltage is one of the most effective techniques for reducing microprocessor power consumption. Unfortunately, at low voltages, chips are very sensitive to process ...