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IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Software­Directed Register Deallocation for Simultaneous
Multithreaded Processors
Jack L. Lo # , Sujay S. Parekh, Susan J. Eggers, Henry M. Levy, and Dean M. Tullsen*
# Transmeta Corp.
3940 Freedom Circle
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Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
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*Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
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Abstract
This paper proposes and evaluates software techniques that increase register file utilization
for simultaneous multithreading (SMT) processors. SMT processors require large register files to
hold multiple thread contexts that can issue instructions out of order every cycle. By supporting

Source: Anderson, Richard - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle
Wang, Deli - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at San Diego

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