Download or read book Two level Adaptive Branch Prediction and Instruction Fetch Mechanisms for High Performance Superscalar Processors written by Tse-Yu Yeh and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "As the issue width and depth of pipelining of high performance superscalar processors increase, the importance of an effective instruction fetch mechanism becomes vital to delivering the potential performance of a wide-issue, deep pipelined microarchitecture. In this thesis a new dynamic branch predictor (Two-Level Adaptive Branch Prediction) and a new instruction fetch mechanism suitable for superscalar processors are proposed to reduce the branch execution penalty in instruction fetch. The branch predictor uses two levels of branch history information to make predictions: the history of the last k branches encountered, and the branch behavior for the last s occurrences of the specific pattern of these k branches. Its nine variations are identified according to how finely the history information is gathered. The cost- effectiveness of the variations is compared. Simulation results show that the average misprediction rate for the Two-Level Adaptive branch predictor with a reasonable implementation cost is 3% over nine programs in the SPEC89 benchmark suite, while other known schemes achieve at least 5.6% average misprediction rate. The branch predictor is integrated into an instruction fetch mechanism that is able to fetch multiple instructions each cycle and change instruction flow without incurring any pipeline bubbles. Compared with designs which use other branch predictors, the proposed design significantly reduces the branch execution penalty."
Download or read book High Performance Computing written by Mateo Valero and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-06-29 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wish to welcome all of you to the International Symposium on High Perf- mance Computing 2000 (ISHPC 2000) in the megalopolis of Tokyo. After having two great successes with ISHPC’97 (Fukuoka, November 1997) and ISHPC’99 (Kyoto, May 1999), many people have requested that the symposium would be held in the capital of Japan and we have agreed. I am very pleased to serve as Conference Chair at a time when high p- formance computing (HPC) has a signi?cant in?uence on computer science and technology. In particular, HPC has had and will continue to have a signi?cant - pact on the advanced technologies of the “IT” revolution. The many conferences and symposiums that are held on the subject around the world are an indication of the importance of this area and the interest of the research community. One of the goals of this symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion of all aspects of HPC (from system architecture to real applications) in a more informal and personal fashion. Today we are delighted to have this symposium, which includes excellent invited talks, tutorials and workshops, as well as high quality technical papers.
Download or read book Modern Processor Design written by John Paul Shen and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceptual and precise, Modern Processor Design brings together numerous microarchitectural techniques in a clear, understandable framework that is easily accessible to both graduate and undergraduate students. Complex practices are distilled into foundational principles to reveal the authors insights and hands-on experience in the effective design of contemporary high-performance micro-processors for mobile, desktop, and server markets. Key theoretical and foundational principles are presented in a systematic way to ensure comprehension of important implementation issues. The text presents fundamental concepts and foundational techniques such as processor design, pipelined processors, memory and I/O systems, and especially superscalar organization and implementations. Two case studies and an extensive survey of actual commercial superscalar processors reveal real-world developments in processor design and performance. A thorough overview of advanced instruction flow techniques, including developments in advanced branch predictors, is incorporated. Each chapter concludes with homework problems that will institute the groundwork for emerging techniques in the field and an introduction to multiprocessor systems.
Download or read book The 25th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hybrid Branch Prediction Using Limited Dual Path Execution written by Kelsey Lynn Lick and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Performance Computing written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Data Prefetch Mechanisms for Accelerating Symbolic and Numeric Computation written by Sharad Mehrotra and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Readings in Computer Architecture written by Mark D. Hill and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a carefully reviewed selection of over 50 papers illustrating the breadth and depth of computer architecture, this text includes insightful introductions to guide readers through the primary sources.
Download or read book Improving Branch Prediction by Understanding Branch Behavior written by Marius Evers and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Processor Architecture written by Jurij Silc and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of architectural mechanisms and implementation techniques for exploiting fine- and coarse-grained parallelism within microprocessors. Beginning with a review of past techniques, the monograph provides a comprehensive account of state-of-the-art techniques used in microprocessors, covering both the concepts involved and implementations in sample processors. The whole is rounded off with a thorough review of the research techniques that will lead to future microprocessors. XXXXXXX Neuer Text This monograph surveys architectural mechanisms and implementation techniques for exploiting fine-grained and coarse-grained parallelism within microprocessors. It presents a comprehensive account of state-of-the-art techniques used in microprocessors that covers both the concepts involved and possible implementations. The authors also provide application-oriented methods and a thorough review of the research techniques that will lead to the development of future processors.
Download or read book Third International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture written by and published by Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE). This book was released on 1997 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Trace Cache Design for Wide issue Superscalar Processors written by Sanjay J. Patel and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "To maximize the performance of a wide-issue superscalar processor, the fetch mechanism must be capable of delivering at least the same instruction bandwidth as the execution mechanism is capable of consuming. Fetch mechanisms consisting of a simple instruction cache are limited by difficulty in fetching a branch and its taken target in a single cycle. Such fetch mechanisms will not suffice for processors capable of executing multiple basic blocks' worth of instructions. The Trace Cache is proposed to deal with lost fetch bandwidth due to branches. The trace cache is a structure which overcomes this partial fetch problem by storing logically contiguous instructions -- instructions which are adjacent in the instruction stream -- in physically contiguous storage. In this manner, the trace cache is able to deliver multiple non-contiguous blocks each cycle. This dissertation contains a description of the trace cache mechanism for a 16-wide issue processor, along with an evaluation of basic parameters of this mechanism, such as relative size and associativity. The main contributions of this dissertation are a series of trace cache enhancements which boost instruction fetch bandwidth by 34% and overall performance by 14% over an aggressive instruction cache. Also included is an analysis of two important performance limitations of the trace cache: branch resolution time and instruction duplication."
Download or read book Innovative Architecture for Future Generation High performance Processors and Systems written by Alex Veidenbaum and published by I E E E. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers the 12 papers presented during the January 2002 workshop on high performance computing, with an emphasis on low power design and network processing. Among the topics are reducing power with an L0 instruction cache using history-based prediction, tight nonlinear loop timing estimation, multig
Download or read book ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems written by Association for Computing Machinery and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
