ISCA
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper presents ReVive, a novel general-purpose rollback recovery mechanism for shared-memory multiprocessors. ReVive carefully balances the conflicting requirements of avail...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
Exponential growth in the number of on-chip transistors, coupled with reductions in voltage levels, makes each generation of microprocessors increasingly vulnerable to transient f...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
Instruction window size is an important design parameter for many modern processors. Large instruction windows offer the potential advantage of exposing large amounts of instructi...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper investigates a class of main memory accesses (invalid memory traffic) that can be eliminated altogether. Invalid memory traffic is real data traffic that transfers inva...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
An instruction set architecture (ISA) suitable for future microprocessor design constraints is proposed. The ISA has hierarchical register files with a small number of accumulator...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
The number of pipeline stages separating dynamic instruction scheduling from instruction execution has increased considerably in recent out-of-order microprocessor implementations...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
The importance of the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) on system performance is well known. There have been numerous prior efforts addressing TLB design issues for cutting down ...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
Due to shrinking technologies and increasing design sizes, it is becoming more difficult and expensive to distribute a global clock signal with low skew throughout a processor di...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
Techniques for analyzing and improving memory referencing behavior continue to be important for achieving good overall program performance due to the ever-increasing performance g...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
Microprocessor clock frequency has improved by nearly 40% annually over the past decade. This improvement has been provided, in equal measure, by smaller technologies and deeper p...