ISCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1996
IEEE
Current high performance computer systems use complex, large superscalar CPUs that interface to the main memory through a hierarchy of caches and interconnect systems. These CPU-c...
ISCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1997
IEEE
Improvements in main memory speeds have not kept pace with increasing processor clock frequency and improved exploitation of instruction-level parallelism. Consequently, the gap b...