With the right techniques, multicore architectures may be able to continue the exponential
performance trend that elevated the performance of applications of all types for decades …

The computer industry has adopted multi-threaded and multi-core architectures as the clock
rate increase stalled in early 2000's. It was hoped that the continuous improvement of single …

In this paper we present a processor microarchitecture that can simultaneously execute
multiple threads and has a clustered design for scalability purposes. A main feature of the …

Multicore designs have emerged as the mainstream design paradigm for the microprocessor
industry. Unfortunately, providing multiple cores does not directly translate into performance …

While clusters of commodity servers and switches are the most popular form of large-scale
parallel computers, many programs are not easily parallelized for execution upon them. In …

Speculative parallelization is a technique that allows code sections that cannot be fully
analyzed by the compiler to be aggressively executed in parallel. However, while …

Speculative multithreading (SpMT) promises to be an effective mechanism for parallelizing
non-numeric programs, which tend to use irregular data structures with pointers and have …

We present Runtime Automatic Speculative Parallelization (RASP), a technique for the
dynamic extraction of speculative threads from a running application in a user-transparent …

As increasing the performance of single-threaded processors becomes increasingly difficult,
consumer desktop processors are moving toward multi-core designs. One way to enhance …

Recent research in thread-level speculation (TLS) has proposed several mechanisms for
optimistic execution of difficult-to-analyze serial codes in parallel. Though it has been shown …