Evaluation of the WM architecture

  • Authors:
  • Wm. A. Wulf

  • Affiliations:
  • -

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

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Abstract

This report describes the results of studies of the WM architecture—its performance, the values of some of its key architectural parameters, the difficulty of compiling for it, and hardware implementation complexity. The studies confirm that, with comparable chip area and without heroic compiler technology, WM is capable of outperforming traditional scalar architectures by factors of 2-9. They also underscore the need to devise higher bandwidth memory systems.