Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures

Informationen zum Autor David Kaeli, Pen-Chung Yew Klappentext Until now! there were few textbooks that focused on the dynamic subject of speculative execution! a topic that is crucial to the development of high performance computer architectures. Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures describes many recent advances in speculative execution techniques. It covers cutting-edge research projects! as well as numerous commercial implementations that demonstrate the value of this latency-hiding technique. The book begins with a review of control speculation techniques that use instruction cache prefetching! branch prediction and predication! and multi-path execution. It then examines dataflow speculation techniques including data cache prefetching! address value and data value speculation! pre-computation! and coherence speculation. This textbook also explores multithreaded approaches! emphasizing profile-guided speculation! speculative microarchitectures! and compiler techniques. Zusammenfassung Describes many advances in speculative execution techniques. This book covers research projects as well as commercial implementations that demonstrate the value of this latency-hiding technique. It reviews control speculation techniques that use instruction cache prefetching, branch prediction and predication, and multi-path execution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Instruction cache prefetching. Branch prediction. Trace caches. Branch predication. Multipath execution. Data cache prefetching. Address prediction. Data speculation. Instruction precomputation: Dynamically removing redundant computations using profiling. Profile-Based speculation. Compilation and speculation. Multithreading and speculation. Exploiting Load/Store parallelism via memory dependence prediction. Resource flow microarchitectures.

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• Authors: David Kaeli, David (Northeastern University Kaeli, David Yew Kaeli
• Assisted by: David Kaeli (Editor), David (Northeastern University Kaeli (Editor), Kaeli David (Editor), Pen-Chung Yew (Editor), Pen-Chung (University of Minnesota Yew (Editor), Yew Pen-Chung (Editor), Sartaj Sahni (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.05.2005
• EAN: 9781584884477
• ISBN: 978-1-58488-447-7
• No. of pages: 456
• Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer and Information Science Series; Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer and Information Science Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; COMPUTERS / Logic Design, Computer architecture & logic design, COMPUTERS / Computer Architecture, Computer architecture and logic design