Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) and chip multiprocessing (CMP) both allow a chip to achieve greater throughput, but their relative energy-efficiency and thermal properties are s...
Yingmin Li, David Brooks, Zhigang Hu, Kevin Skadro...
ZettaRAMTM is a new memory technology under development by ZettaCoreTM as a potential replacement for conventional DRAM. The key innovation is replacing the conventional capacitor...
Ravi K. Venkatesan, Ahmed S. Al-Zawawi, Eric Roten...
Pipeline gating has been proposed for reducing wasted speculative execution due to branch mispredictions. As processors become deeper or wider, pipeline gating becomes more import...
Haitham Akkary, Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Rajendar K...
Recent research suggests that there are large variations in a cache's spatial usage, both within and across programs. Unfortunately, conventional caches typically employ fixe...
Chi F. Chen, Se-Hyun Yang, Babak Falsafi, Andreas ...
Modern out-of-order processors tolerate long latency memory operations by supporting a large number of inflight instructions. This is particularly useful in numerical applications...