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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Main Authors: Francisco J. Villa, Manuel Acacio Sánchez, José Manuel García Carrasco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Postgraduate Office, School of Computer Science, Universidad Nacional de La Plata 2006-04-01
Series:Journal of Computer Science and Technology
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Online Access:https://journal.info.unlp.edu.ar/JCST/article/view/823
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1666-6046
1666-6038