Current data cache organizations fail to deliver high performance in scalar processors for many vector applications. There are two main reasons for this loss of performance: the u...
One of the essential features in modern computer systems is context switching, which allows multiple threads of execution to time-share a limited number of processors. While very ...
Fang Liu, Fei Guo, Yan Solihin, Seongbeom Kim, Abd...
Many complex systems require the use of floating point arithmetic that is exceedingly time consuming to perform on personal computers. However, floating point operators are also h...
Jason Lee, Lesley Shannon, Matthew J. Yedlin, Gary...
Control intensive scalar programs pose a very different challenge to highly pipelined supercomputers than vectorizable numeric applications. Function call/return and branch instru...
: The architecture of the IBM Cell BE processor represents a new approach for designing CPUs. The fast execution of legacy software has to stand back in order to achieve very high ...
Timo Schneider, Torsten Hoefler, Simon Wunderlich,...