MICRO
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Significant improvement to visual quality for real-time 3D graphics requires modeling of complex illumination effects like soft-shadows, reflections, and diffuse lighting intera...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
MICRO
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
MICRO
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Higher level of resource integration and the addition of new features in modern multi-processors put a significant pressure on their verification. Although a large amount of res...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
—Transactional memory (TM) is a promising paradigm for helping programmers take advantage of emerging multicore platforms. Though they perform well under low contention, hardware...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Uniprocessor simulators track resource utilization cycle by cycle to estimate performance. Multiprocessor simulators, however, must account for synchronization events that increas...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Optimizing the common case has been an adage in decades of processor design practices. However, as the system complexity and optimization techniques’ sophistication have increas...