Kilo-Instruction Processors: Overcoming the Memory Wall

  • Authors:
  • Adrian Cristal;Oliverio J. Santana;Francisco Cazorla;Marco Galluzzi;Tanausu Ramirez;Miquel Pericas;Mateo Valero

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Kilo-instruction processors are a new type of out-of-order superscalar processor that overlaps long memory access delays by maintaining thousands of in-flight instructions, in a scalable, efficient manner.