Parthenon

CS252: Reading Assignment #7
Due Wednesday, October 4th
For Wednesday, read the following four papers, and turn in three paragraphs (as described below):
  1. Dean M. Tullsen, Susan J. Eggers and Henry M. Levy,  Simultaneous multithreading: maximizing on-chip parallelism,  Proceedings of the 22nd annual international symposium on Computer architecture, June 22 - 24, 1995.  See ISCA Retrospective
  2. Tse-Yu Yeh and Yale Patt, "Alternative Implementations of Two-level Adaptive Branch Prediction", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 1992. See ISCA Retrospective
  3. Cliff Young, Nicolas Gloy, and Michael D. Smith, "A Comparative Analysis of Schemes for Correlated Branch Prediction", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 1995.
  4. Marius Evers, Sanjay J. Patel, Robert S. Chappell, and Yale N. Patt, "Analysis of Correlation and Predictability: What Makes Two-Level Branch Predictors Work,"  Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-25), June 1998
Write three paragraphs for Wednesday.  Write one paragraph on paper #1, one paragraph on #2, and one comparing and constrasting papers #3, and #4.
 

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