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Massively parallel processor array

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Shared Frontend for Manycore Server Processors

Instruction-supplymechanisms, namely the branch predictors and instruction prefetchers, exploit recurring control flow in an application to predict the applicationâ s future control flow and provide the core with a useful instruction stream to execute in ...

EPFL2015

Efficient Communication and Synchronization on Manycore Processors

Darko Petrovic

The increased number of cores integrated on a chip has brought about a number of challenges. Concerns about the scalability of cache coherence protocols have urged both researchers and practitioners to explore alternative programming models, where cache co ...

EPFL2015

Memory Systems and Interconnects for Scale-Out Servers

Stavros Volos

The information revolution of the last decade has been fueled by the digitization of almost all human activities through a wide range of Internet services. The backbone of this information age are scale-out datacenters that need to collect, store, and proc ...

EPFL2015

Applying HTM to an OLTP System: No Free Lunch

Anastasia Ailamaki, Pinar Tözün, Danica Porobic

Transactional memory is a promising way for implementing efficient synchronization mechanisms for multicore processors. Intel's introduction of hardware transactional memory (HTM) into their Haswell line of processors marks an important step toward mainstr ...

2015

Enhancing Design Space Exploration by Extending CPU/GPU Specifications onto FPGAs

Paolo Ienne, Andreas Peter Burg, David Novo Bruna, Georgios Karakonstantis, Gabriel Falcao Paiva Fernandes, Madhura Purnaprajna

The design cycle for complex special-purpose computing systems is extremely costly and time-consuming. It involves a multiparametric design space exploration for optimization, followed by design verification. Designers of special purpose VLSI implementatio ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

Leveraging Hardware Message Passing for Efficient Thread Synchronization

André Schiper, Thomas Ropars, Darko Petrovic

As the level of parallelism in manycore processors keeps increasing, providing efficient mechanisms for thread synchronization in concurrent programs is becoming a major concern. On cache-coherent shared-memory processors, synchronization efficiency is ult ...

2014

Leveraging Hardware Message Passing for Efficient Thread Synchronization

André Schiper, Thomas Ropars, Darko Petrovic

Assoc Computing Machinery2014

High-Performance Communication Primitives and Data Structures on Message-Passing Manycores : Broadcast and Map

Omid Shahmirzadi

The constant increase in single core frequency reached a plateau during recent years since the produced heat inside the chip cannot be cooled down by existing technologies anymore. An alternative to harvest more computational power per die is to fabricate ...

EPFL2014

Unison Cache: A Scalable and Effective Die-Stacked DRAM Cache

Babak Falsafi, Dorde Jevdic, Ilknur Cansu Kaynak

Recent research advocates large die-stacked DRAM caches in manycore servers to break the memory latency and bandwidth wall. To realize their full potential, die-stacked DRAM caches necessitate low lookup latencies, high hit rates and the efficient use of o ...

IEEE2014

Energy-Aware Processing Platform Exploration for Embedded Biosignal Analysis

Ahmed Yasir Dogan

According to the World Health Organization, lifestyle-related diseases, e.g., cardiovascular diseases are the major cause of mortality worldwide. An accurate and continuous medical supervision is highly required for diagnosis and treatment of such diseases ...

EPFL2013

An integrated, programming model-driven framework for NoC-QoS support in cluster-based embedded many-cores

Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini, Federico Angiolini, Jaime Joven Murillo

Embedded SoC designs are embracing the many-core paradigm to deliver the required performance to run an ever-increasing number of applications in parallel. Networks-on-Chip (NoC) are considered as a convenient technology to implement many-core embedded pla ...

Elsevier2013