Since the 1970's, microprocessor-based digital platforms have been riding Moore's law,
allowing for doubling of density for the same area roughly every two years. However …

Lack of memory safety in C is the root cause of a multitude of serious bugs and security
vulnerabilities. Numerous software-only and hardware-based schemes have been proposed …

With the prevalence of GPUs as throughput engines for data parallel workloads, the
landscape of GPU computing is changing significantly. Non-graphics workloads with high …

Driven by the motivation to expose instruction-level parallelism (ILP), microprocessor cores
have evolved from simple, in-order pipelines into complex, superscalar out-of-order designs …

This paper presents a pre-execution approach for improving GPU performance, called P-
mode (pre-execution mode). GPUs utilize a number of concurrent threads for hiding …

Improving architectural energy efficiency is important to address diminishing energy
efficiency gains from technology scaling. At the same time, limiting hardware complexity is …

In this paper, we set out to study the performance advantages of an Out-of-Order (OOO)
processor relative to in-order processors with similar execution resources. In particular, we …

A multithreaded data processing system performs processing using resource circuitry which
is a finite resource. A saturation signal is generated to indicate when the resource circuitry is …

We present OUTRIDER, an architecture for throughput-oriented processors that provides
memory latency tolerance to improve performance on highly threaded workloads …

Over the past decade there has been a surge of academic and industrial interest in
optimistic concurrency, ie the speculative parallel execution of code regions that have the …