Serializing instructions (SIs), such as writes to control registers, have many complex dependencies, and are difficult to execute out-of-order (OoO). To avoid unnecessary complexi...
Task-selection policies are critical to the performance of any architecture that uses speculation to extract parallel tasks from a sequential thread. This paper demonstrates that ...
Mayank Agarwal, Kshitiz Malik, Kevin M. Woley, Sam...
With the scaling of technology and the need for higher performance and more functionality, power dissipation is becoming a major bottleneck for microprocessor designs. Pipeline ba...
Hai Li, Swarup Bhunia, Yiran Chen, T. N. Vijaykuma...
The use of the Java programming language for implementing server-side application logic is increasing in popularity, yet there is very little known about the architectural require...
Harold W. Cain, Ravi Rajwar, Morris Marden, Mikko ...
We present a new user interface for the common morphing tool found in animation packages. Previously this interface has been based on the features of the underlying algorithm, wit...