Toward Energy-Efficient High-Performance Organizations of the Memory Hierarchy in Chip-Multiprocessors Architectures

Chip-multiprocessor systems or CMPs have emerged as a high-perfomance organization for the increasing number of transistors available on a chip, and are projected to dominate the market of server and desktop computers. CMPs require innovative designs of on-chip memory hierarchies, especially designe...

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Autores principales: Villa, Francisco J., Acacio Sánchez, Manuel, García Carrasco, José Manuel
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2006
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/9512
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Sumario:Chip-multiprocessor systems or CMPs have emerged as a high-perfomance organization for the increasing number of transistors available on a chip, and are projected to dominate the market of server and desktop computers. CMPs require innovative designs of on-chip memory hierarchies, especially designed to address the problems that arise in this novel kind of architecture: higher memory bandwidh demand from more processing cores and the increasing latency of off-chip cache misses. Moreover, the energy consumption topic is even more pressing than in traditionalmultiprocessors, as the CMPs are commonly used in embedded systems. This paper presents a survey of some of the proposals that have recently appeared facing these topics.