The expandable split window paradigm for exploiting fine-grain parallelsim

  • Authors:
  • Manoj Franklin;Gurindar S. Sohi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ISCA '92 Proceedings of the 19th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

We propose a new processing paradigm, called the Expandable Split Window (ESW) paradigm, for exploiting fine-grain parallelism. This paradigm considers a window of instructions (possibly having dependencies) as a single unit, and exploits fine-grain parallelism by overlapping the execution of multiple windows. The basic idea is to connect multiple sequential processors, in a decoupled and decentralized manner, to achieve overall multiple issue. This processing paradigm shares a number of properties of the restricted dataflow machines, but was derived from the sequential von Neumann architecture. We also present an implementation of the Expandable Split Window execution model, and preliminary performance results.