Morphable Cache Architectures: Potential Benefits
OM '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Optimization of middleware and distributed systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Memory Access Schemes for Configurable Processors
FPL '00 Proceedings of the The Roadmap to Reconfigurable Computing, 10th International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications
Memory System Support for Irregular Applications
LCR '98 Selected Papers from the 4th International Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-Time Systems for Scalable Computers
Safe and Protected Execution for the Morph/AMRM Reconfigurable Processor
FCCM '99 Proceedings of the Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
Impulse: Memory system support for scientific applications
Scientific Programming
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We propose a machine architecture that integrates programmable logic into key components of the system with the goal of customizing architectural mechanisms and policies to match an application. This approach presents an improvement over the traditional approach of exploiting programmable logic as a separate co-processor by pre-serving machine usability through software and on a traditional computer architecture by providing application-specific hardware. We present two case studies of architectural customization to enhance latency tolerance and efficiently utilize network bisection on multiprocessors for sparse matrix computations. We demonstrate that application-specific hardware and policies can provide substantial improvements in performance on a per application basis. Based on these preliminary results, we propose that an application-driven machine customization provides a promising approach to achieve high performance and combat performance fragility.