—Bare PC applications do not use an operating system or kernel. The bare PC architecture avoids buffer copying, minimizes interrupts, uses a single thread of execution for proces...
Long He, Ramesh K. Karne, Alexander L. Wijesinha, ...
Processor architectures with tens to hundreds of arithmetic units are emerging to handle media processing applications. These applications, such as image coding, image synthesis, ...
Scott Rixner, William J. Dally, Brucek Khailany, P...
Time skewing is a compile-time optimization that can provide arbitrarily high cache hit rates for a class of iterative calculations, given a sufficient number of time steps and s...
Impulse is a new memory system architecture that adds two important features to a traditional memory controller. First, Impulse supports application-specific optimizations through...
John B. Carter, Wilson C. Hsieh, Leigh Stoller, Ma...
Increases in instruction level parallelism are needed to exploit the potential parallelism available in future wide issue architectures. Predicated execution is an architectural m...
Lori Carter, Beth Simon, Brad Calder, Larry Carter...