Industry is building larger, more complex, manycore processors on the back of strong
institutional knowledge, but academic projects face difficulties in replicating that scale. To …

The end of Dennard's scaling and the looming power wall have made power and energy
primary design goals for modern processors. Further, new applications such as cloud …

The shared cloud-based computing paradigm has experienced enormous growth.
Multitenant clouds are conventionally built atop datacenters that utilize commodity hardware …

For five years, OpenPiton has provided hardware designs, build and verification scripts, and
other infrastructure to enable efficient, detailed research into manycores and systems-on …

Threads of Single-Program Multiple-Data (SPMD) applications often execute the same
instructions on different data. We propose the Dynamic Inter-Thread Vectorization …

Cache compression has largely focused on improving single-stream application
performance. In contrast, this work proposes utilizing cache compression to improve …

Single-ISA heterogeneous multi-core architectures offer a compelling high-performance and
high-efficiency solution to executing task-parallel workloads in mobile systems on chip …

This work introduces Single Instruction Multi-Thread Express (SIMT-X), a general-purpose
Central Processing Unit (CPU) microarchitecture that enables Graphics Processing Units …

Since the first digital computers, architects have exploited transistor scaling to drive
innovation. Decreasing transistor sizes, and subsequently increasing transistor budgets, has …

Hardware-software research routinely starts with modelling. High-level models can capture
much of the desired system behaviour needed to begin evaluating architectural research …