Caching mechanism has achieved great success in general purpose processor; however, its deployment in Network Processor (NP) raises questions over its effectiveness under the new ...
Zhen Liu, Jia Yu, Xiaojun Wang, Bin Liu, Laxmi N. ...
Processors execute the full dynamic instruction stream to arrive at the final output of a program, yet there exist shorter instruction streams that produce the same overall effec...
Karthik Sundaramoorthy, Zachary Purser, Eric Roten...
One model of multithreading gaining popularity on multiprocessor systems is the message-driven model of computation. The message-driven model is a reactive model in which an arriv...
The rapid advancements of networking technology have boosted potential bandwidth to the point that the cabling is no longer the bottleneck. Rather, the bottlenecks lie at the cros...
Patrick Crowley, Marc E. Fiuczynski, Jean-Loup Bae...
In processors with several levels of hardware resource sharing, like CMPs in which each core is an SMT, the scheduling process becomes more complex than in processors with a singl...
Petar Radojkovic, Vladimir Cakarevic, Javier Verd&...