History of Computer Architecture

This is History of Computer Architecture retold with retrospective of ISCA, MICRO, ASPLOS, HPCA papers up until 10 years ago. Ask questions, discuss the papers, and debate. Each paper has it's own space for discussion.

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Architectures that exploit patterns of repeated execution to amortize instruction frontend costs or enable efficient compiler control of instruction execution.

Authors: André Seznec, Stephen Felix, Venkata Krishnan, and Yiannakis Sazeides This paper presents the Alpha EV8 conditional branch predictor The Alpha EV8 microprocessor project, canceled in June 2001 in a late phase of development, envisioned an ag...

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ISCA 97. Although VLIW architectures offer the advantages of simplicity of design and high issue rates, a major impediment to their use is that they are not compatible with the existing software base. We describe new simple hardware features for a VL...

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Authors: Krisztián Flautner, Nam Sung Kim, Steve Martin, David Blaauw, and Trevor Mudge On-chip caches represent a sizable fraction of the total power consumption of microprocessors. Although large caches can significantly improve performance, they h...

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