Although InfiniBand Architecture is relatively new in the high performance computing area, it
offers many features which help us to improve the performance of communication …

Approximate computing explores opportunities that emerge when applications can tolerate
error or inexactness. These applications, which range from multimedia processing to …

Dedicating more silicon area to single thread performance will necessarily be considered as
worthwhile in future-potentially heterogeneous-multicores. In particular, Value prediction …

The physical register file is an important component of a dynamically-scheduled processor.
Increasing the amount of parallelism places increasing demands on the physical register …

Value locality (VL) refers to recurrence of values in a memory structure, and value prediction
(VP) refers to predicting VL and leveraging it for diverse optimizations. VP holds the promise …

Even in the multicore era, there is a continuous demand to increase the performance of
single-threaded applications. However, the conventional path of increasing both issue width …

Cache miss stalls hurt performance because of the large gap between memory and
processor speeds-for example, the popular server benchmark SPEC JBB2000 spends 45 …

The ever-increasing computational power of contemporary microprocessors reduces the
execution time spent on arithmetic computations (ie, the computations not involving slow …

Value Prediction (VP) is a microarchitectural technique that speculatively breaks data
dependencies to increase the available Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) in general …

Until now, there were few textbooks that focused on the dynamic subject of speculative
execution, a topic that is crucial to the development of high performance computer …