4. HPCA 1998: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, 31 January - 4 February 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. IEEE Computer Society. online publication: http: //www.computer.org/proceedings/hpca/8323/8323toc.htm

Multithreading

J. Gregory Steffan, Todd C. Mowry:
The Potential for Using Thread-Level Data Speculation to Facilitate Automatic Parallelization. 2-13
Jordi Tubella, Antonio González:
Control Speculation in Multithreaded Processors through Dynamic Loop Detection. 14-23
Jenn-Yuan Tsai, Zhenzhen Jiang, Eric Ness, Pen-Chung Yew:
Performance Study of a Concurrent Multithreaded Processor. 24-35

Routing and Communication Mechanisms

Frederic T. Chong, Rajeev Barua, Fredrik Dahlgren, John Kubiatowicz, Anant Agarwal:
The Sensitivity of Communication Mechanisms to Bandwidth and Latency. 37-46
Manolis Katevenis, Dimitrios N. Serpanos, Emmanuel Spyridakis:
Credit-Flow-Controlled ATM for MP Interconnection: The ATLAS I Single-Chip ATM Switch. 47-56
Pedro López, Juan Miguel Martínez, José Duato:
A Very Efficient Distributed Deadlock Detection Mechanism for Wormhole Networks. 57-

Communication Impact on Application Performance

Koen Langendoen, Rutger F. H. Hofman, Henri E. Bal:
Challenging Applications on Fast Networks. 68-79
David R. O'Hallaron, Jonathan Richard Shewchuk, Thomas R. Gross:
Architectural Implications of a Family of Irregular Applications. 80-89
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler, Joseph M. Hellerstein, David A. Patterson:
The Architectural Costs of Streaming I/O: A Comparison of Workstations, Clusters, and SMPs. 90-101

SMP Clusters

Adrian Moga, Michel Dubois:
The Effectiveness of SRAM Network Caches in Clustered DSMs. 103-112
Rudrajit Samanta, Angelos Bilas, Liviu Iftode, Jaswinder Pal Singh:
Home-Based SVM Protocols for SMP Clusters: Design and Performance. 113-124
Daniel J. Scales, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Anshu Aggarwal:
Fine-Grain Software Distributed Shared Memory on SMP Clusters. 125-136

Shared-Memory Multiprocessors

Kattamuri Ekanadham, Beng-Hong Lim, Pratap Pattnaik, Marc Snir:
PRISM: An Integrated Architecture for Scalable Shared Memory. 140-151
Sujoy Basu, Josep Torrellas:
Enhancing Memory Use in Simple Coma: Multiplexed Simple Coma. 152-161
Ye Zhang, Lawrence Rauchwerger, Josep Torrellas:
Hardware for Speculative Run-Time Parallelization in Distributed Shared-Memory Multiprocessors. 162-173

Speculation and Register Renaming

Antonio González, José González, Mateo Valero:
Virtual-Physical Registers. 175-184
Tien-Fu Chen:
Supporting Highly-Speculative Execution via Adaptive Branch Trees. 185-194
Sridhar Gopal, T. N. Vijaykumar, James E. Smith, Gurindar S. Sohi:
Speculative Versioning Cache. 195-205

Network Interface Design

Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Mark D. Hill:
The Impact of Data Transfer and Buffering Alternatives on Network Interface Design. 207-218
Ioannis Schoinas, Mark D. Hill:
Address Translation Mechanisms In Network Interfaces. 219-230
Kenneth Mackenzie, John Kubiatowicz, Matthew Frank, Walter Lee, Victor Lee, Anant Agarwal, M. Frans Kaashoek:
Exploiting Two-Case Delivery for Fast Protected Messaging. 231-242

Compiler and Operating System Issues

John Kalamatianos, David R. Kaeli:
Temporal-Based Procedure Reordering for Improved Instruction Cache Performance. 244-253
Marta Jiménez, José M. Llabería, Agustin Fernández:
Performance Evaluation of Tiling for the Register Level. 254-265
William A. Havanki, Sanjeev Banerjia, Thomas M. Conte:
Treegion Scheduling for Wide Issue Processors. 266-276
Kaushik Ghosh, Allan J. Christie:
Communication Across Fault-Containment Firewalls on the SGI Origin. 277-287

Enhancements for DSM Systems

Luiz Rodolpho Monnerat, Ricardo Bianchini:
Efficiently Adapting to Sharing Patterns in Software DSMs. 289-299
Todd C. Mowy, Charles Q. C. Chan, Adley K. W. Lo:
Comparative Evaluation of Latency Tolerance Techniques for Software Distributed Shared Memory. 300-311
Evan Speight, John K. Bennett:
Using Multicast and Multithreading to Reduce Communication in Software DSM Systems. 312-

Processor Design and Performance Evaluation

David Abramson, Paul Logothetis, Adam Postula, Marcus Randall:
FPGA Based Custom Computing Machines for Irregular Problems. 324-333
Michael F. Miller, Kenneth J. Janik, Shih-Lien Lu:
Non-Stalling CounterFlow Architecture. 334-341
Darren Erik Vengroff, Guang R. Gao:
Partial Sampling with Reverse State Reconstruction: A New Technique for Branch Predictor Performance Estimation. 342-351