PACT 1999: Newport Beach, California, USA

Microarchitecture

• Pierre Michaud, André Seznec, Stéphan Jourdan:
  Exploring Instruction-Fetch Bandwidth Requirement in Wide-Issue Superscalar Processors. 2-10
  
• Heiko Oehring, Ulrich Sigmund, Theo Ungerer:
  MPEG-2 Video Decompression on Simultaneous Multithreaded Multimedia Processors. 11-16
  
• D. K. Arvind, Robert D. Mullins:
  A Fully Asynchronous Superscalar Architecture. 17-22
  

Multithreading

• Venkata Krishnan, Josep Torrellas:
  The Need for Fast Communication in Hardware-Based Speculative Chip Multiprocessors. 24-33
  
• Uwe Brinkschulte, C. Krakowski, Jochen Kreuzinger, Theo Ungerer:
  A Multithreaded Java Microcontroller for Thread-Oriented Real-Time Event Handling. 34-39
  
• Lucian Codrescu, D. Scott Wills:
  On Dynamic Speculative Thread Partitioning and the MEM-Slicing Algorithm. 40-46
  

Prediction Mechanisms

• Srilatha Manne, Artur Klauser, Dirk Grunwald:
  Branch Prediction Using Selective Branch Inversion. 48-56
  
• José González, Antonio González:
  Control-Flow Speculation through Value Prediction for Superscalar Processors. 57-65
  
• Martin Burtscher, Benjamin G. Zorn:
  Exploring Last n Value Prediction. 66-76
  

Compilation Techniques

• Madhavi Gopal Valluri, R. Govindarajan:
  Evaluating Register Allocation and Instruction Scheduling Techniques in Out-Of-Order Issue Processors. 78-83
  
• Peng Wu, David A. Padua:
  Containers on the Parallelization of General-Purpose Java Programs. 84-90
  
• Tsuneo Nakanishi, Kazuki Joe, Constantine D. Polychronopoulos, Akira Fukuda:
  The Modulo Interval: A Simple and Practical Representation for Program Analysis. 91-96
  

Performance Characterization

• Lixin Zhang, John B. Carter, Wilson C. Hsieh, Sally A. McKee:
  Memory System Support for Image Processing. 98-107
  
• Franck Cappello, Olivier Richard:
  Performance Characteristics of a Network of Commodity Multiprocessors for the NAS Benchmarks Using a Hybrid Memory Model. 108-116
  
• Daniel Ortega, Ivan Martel, Venkata Krishnan, Eduard Ayguadé, Mateo Valero:
  Quantifying the Benefits of SPECint Distant Parallelism in Simultaneous Multi-Threading Architectures. 117-124
  

Invited Talk

• Greg Astfalk:
  High-End Computing Technology: Where is it Heading? 126
  

Advanced Compilation

• Byung-Sun Yang, Soo-Mook Moon, Seongbae Park, Junpyo Lee, SeungIl Lee, Jinpyo Park, Yoo C. Chung, Suhyun Kim, Kemal Ebcioglu, Erik R. Altman:
  LaTTe: A Java VM Just-In-Time Compiler with Fast and Efficient Register Allocation. 128-138
  
• Manish Gupta, Sayak Mukhopadhyay, Navin Sinha:
  Automatic Parallelization of Recursive Procedures. 139-148
  
• Alain Darte:
  On the Complexity of Loop Fusion. 149-157
  

Micro-Clusters, Clusters and SMPs

• Ramon Canal, Joan-Manuel Parcerisa, Antonio González:
  A Cost-Effective Clustered Architecture. 160-168
  
• Wolfgang Karl, Markus Leberecht, Martin Schulz:
  Optimizing Data Locality for SCI-Based PC-Clusters with the SmiLE Monitoring Approach. 169-176
  
• Bowen Alpern, Mark Charney, Jong-Deok Choi, Anthony Cocchi, Derek Lieber:
  Dynamic Linking on a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor. 177-182
  
• Zhiyuan Li:
  Reducing Cache Conflicts by Partitioning and Privatizing Shared Arrays. 183-190
  

Applied Analytical Techniques

• Nicholas Mitchell, Larry Carter, Jeanne Ferrante:
  Localizing Non-Affine Array References. 192-202
  
• Mahmut T. Kandemir, Alok N. Choudhary, J. Ramanujam, Prithviraj Banerjee:
  On Reducing False Sharing while Improving Locality on Shared Memory Multiprocessors. 203-211
  
• Satoshi Fujita, Tadanori Nakagawa:
  Lower Bounding Techniques for the Multiprocessor Scheduling Problem with Communication Delay. 212-220
  
• Basilio B. Fraguela, Ramon Doallo, Emilio L. Zapata:
  Automatic Analytical Modeling for the Estimation of Cache Misses. 221-231
  

Invited Talk

• Beau Vrolyk:
  Linux Alighted: Down to Earth Clusters. 234
  

Architecture-Driven Compilation

• Jeffrey Hammes, Robert Rinker, A. P. Wim Böhm, Walid A. Najjar, Bruce A. Draper, J. Ross Beveridge:
  Cameron: High level Language Compilation for Reconfigurable Systems. 236-244
  
• Lori Carter, Beth Simon, Brad Calder, Larry Carter, Jeanne Ferrante:
  Predicated Static Single Assignment. 245-255
  
• Derek L. Howard, Mikko H. Lipasti:
  The Effect of Program Optimization on Trace Cache Efficiency. 256-261
  

Advanced Parallelization

• Kleanthis Psarris, Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos:
  Data Dependence Testing in Practice. 264-273
  
• Martin Griebl, Paul Feautrier, Christian Lengauer:
  On Index Set Splitting. 274-282
  
• Michael F. P. O'Boyle, Peter M. W. Knijnenburg:
  Efficient Parallelization Using Combined Loop and Data Transformations. 283-292
  

Predication and Speculation

• Soner Önder, Jun Xu, Rajiv Gupta:
  Caching and Predicting Branch Sequences for Improved Fetch Effectiveness. 294-302
  
• Jeffrey T. Oplinger, David L. Heine, Monica S. Lam:
  In Search of Speculative Thread-Level Parallelism. 303-313
  
• Enric Morancho, José M. Llabería, Àngel Olivé:
  Looking at History to Filter Allocations in Prediction Tables. 314-319