MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
Current trends signal an imminent crisis in the simulation of future CMPs (Chip MultiProcessors). Future micro-architectures will offer more and more thread contexts to execute pa...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
High density memory is becoming more important as many execution streams are consolidated onto single chip many-core processors. DRAM is ubiquitous as a main memory technology, but...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
As technology scaling poses a threat to DRAM scaling due to physical limitations such as limited charge, alternative memory technologies including several emerging non-volatile me...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
Energy efficiency is a primary concern for microprocessor designers. A very effective approach to improving the energy efficiency of a chip is to lower its supply voltage to very ...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
The ever-increasing importance of main memory latency and bandwidth is pushing CMPs towards caches with higher capacity and associativity. Associativity is typically improved by in...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
Abstract--Adaptive microarchitectures are a promising solution for designing high-performance, power-efficient microprocessors. They offer the ability to tailor computational resou...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
Wide Single Instruction, Multiple Thread (SIMT) architectures often require a static allocation of thread groups that are executed in lockstep throughout the entire application ker...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
Recently-proposed architectures that continuously operate on atomic blocks of instructions (also called chunks) can boost the programmability and performance of shared-memory mult...