High Performance Computing Group - Industrial Affiliates Program

Clustered Speculative Multithreaded Processors

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This project focuses on alternative microarchitectures that tackle the limitations of current superscalar organizations. The main features of the new researched microarchitectures are: a) a clustered organization in order to exploit communication locality; b) multiple threads of control that are speculatively created at run time by speculating on highly predictable branches; c) value and dependence prediction schemes that allow dependent threads to proceed as if they were independent.

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