performance---estimating both clock rate and IPC--- of an aggressive out-of-order microarchitecture as it is scaled from a 250nm technology to a 35nm technology. We perform this analysis for three clock scaling targets and two microarchitecture scaling strategies: pipeline scaling and capacity scaling. We

-matched to the particular hardware organization chosen. We present a new approach called Complexity-Adaptive Processors (CAPs) in which the IPC/clock rate tradeoff can be altered at runtime to dynamically match the changing requirements of the instruction stream. By exploiting repeater methodologies used increasingly

-kernels exhibit poor ipc performance, typically requiring 100 µs for a short message transfer on a modern processor, running with 50 MHz clock rate. In contrast, we achieve 5 µs; a twentyfold improvement. This paper describes the methods and principles used, starting from the architectural design and going down

,u-kernels exhibit poor ipc performance, typically requiring 100,US for a short message transfer on a modern processor, running with 50 MHz clock rate. In contrast, we achieve 5,US; a twentyfold improvement. This paper describes the methods and principles used, starting from the architectural design and going down

rate. Current methods can be grouped by the way the data are handled (genes considered separately or combined into a ‘supergene’) and the way gene-specific rate models are applied (global versus local clock). There are advantages and disadvantages to each of these approaches, and the optimal method has

of the instruction window (which implies more registers), and to use some kind of multithreading. Under this scenario, the register file access time could be a dominant delay and a pipelined implementation would be desirable to allow for high clock rates. However, a multi-stage register file has severe implications

clock for a machine front-end. For one, two, and three basic blocks, the IPC f of integer benchmark...

In this paper, we survey the design space of a new class of architec-tures called Grid Processor Architectures (GPAs). These architectures are designed to scale with technology, allowing faster clock rates than conventional architectures while providing superior instruction-level parallelism

. Unfortunately, two trends collided and caused a rapid shift in processor architecture: 1) The architecture community's ability to extract ILP from typical code asymptotically approached zero, so processor companies kept increasing the CPU clock rate to compensate and improve performance in a brute force

can accurately predict critical threads in a parallel program, then one can respond in a variety of ways. Possibilities include running the critical thread at a faster clock rate, performing load balancing techniques to offload work onto currently non-critical threads, or giving the critical thread