The so-called "power (or power density) wall" has caused core frequency (and single-thread performance) to slow down, giving rise to the era of multi-core/multi-thread processors. For example, the IBM POWER4 processor, released in 2001, incorporated two single-thread cores into the same chip. In 2010, IBM released the POWER7 processor with eight 4-thread cores in the same chip, for a total capacity of 32 execution contexts. The ever increasing number of cores and threads gives rise to new opportunities and challenges for software and hardware architects. At software level, applications can benefit from the abundant number of execution contexts to boost throughput. But this challenges programmers to create highly-parallel applications and op...
Through the past several decades, based on the Moore's law, the semiconductor industry was doubling ...
Rather than improving single-threaded performance, with the dawn of the multi-core era, processor mi...
The evolution of microprocessor design in the last few decades has changed significantly, moving fro...
The so-called "power (or power density) wall" has caused core frequency (and single-thread performan...
Computing technology has witnessed an inimitable progress in the last decades which is the result of...
This thesis is concerned with hardware approaches for maximizing the number of independent instructi...
As the transistor budgets outpace the power envelope (the power-wall issue), new architectural and m...
Chip multiprocessors (CMPs) have become virtually ubiquitous due to the increasing impact of power a...
From single-core CPUs to detachable compute accelerators, supercomputers made a tremendous progress ...
As process technology shrinks, the transistor count on CPUs has increased. The breakdown of Dennard ...
The complexity of the register file is currently one of the main factors on determining the cycle ti...
While Chip Multiprocessors (CMP) with Speculative Multithreading (SM) support have been gaining mome...
El aumento del número de núcleos e hilos por procesador en los últimos 15 años ha permitido mantener...
Multithreading (MT), by simultaneously using both the thread-level parallelism and the instruction-l...
dissertationWith the explosion of chip transistor counts, the semiconductor industry has struggled w...
Through the past several decades, based on the Moore's law, the semiconductor industry was doubling ...
Rather than improving single-threaded performance, with the dawn of the multi-core era, processor mi...
The evolution of microprocessor design in the last few decades has changed significantly, moving fro...
The so-called "power (or power density) wall" has caused core frequency (and single-thread performan...
Computing technology has witnessed an inimitable progress in the last decades which is the result of...
This thesis is concerned with hardware approaches for maximizing the number of independent instructi...
As the transistor budgets outpace the power envelope (the power-wall issue), new architectural and m...
Chip multiprocessors (CMPs) have become virtually ubiquitous due to the increasing impact of power a...
From single-core CPUs to detachable compute accelerators, supercomputers made a tremendous progress ...
As process technology shrinks, the transistor count on CPUs has increased. The breakdown of Dennard ...
The complexity of the register file is currently one of the main factors on determining the cycle ti...
While Chip Multiprocessors (CMP) with Speculative Multithreading (SM) support have been gaining mome...
El aumento del número de núcleos e hilos por procesador en los últimos 15 años ha permitido mantener...
Multithreading (MT), by simultaneously using both the thread-level parallelism and the instruction-l...
dissertationWith the explosion of chip transistor counts, the semiconductor industry has struggled w...
Through the past several decades, based on the Moore's law, the semiconductor industry was doubling ...
Rather than improving single-threaded performance, with the dawn of the multi-core era, processor mi...
The evolution of microprocessor design in the last few decades has changed significantly, moving fro...