A large logical register file is important to allow effective compiler transformations or to provide a windowed space of registers to allow fast function calls. Unfortunately, a l...
Matt Postiff, David Greene, Steven E. Raasch, Trev...
As a novel approach to software maintenance in large clusters of PCs requiring multiple OS installations we implemented partition cloning and partition repositories as well as a s...
With increasing chip densities, future microprocessor designs have the opportunity to integrate many of the traditional systemlevel modules onto the same chip as the processor. So...
Prefetching offers the potential to improve the performance of linked data structure (LDS) traversals. However, previously proposed prefetching methods only work well when there i...
Magnus Karlsson, Fredrik Dahlgren, Per Stenstr&oum...
This paper presents flit-reservation flow control, in which control flits traverse the network in advance of data flits, reserving buffers and channel bandwidth. Flit-reservation ...