The Maven vector-thread architecture
Yunsup Lee, Rimas R. Avizienis, Alex Bishara, Richard Xia, Derek Lockhart, Christopher Batten, Krste Asanović · 2011
Future manycore processors will be energy-constrained, and thus the primary metric for evaluating these architectures will be their energy-efficiency. In this work, we investigate new architectural and microarchitectural mechanisms which enable a wider array of applications to be mapped to energy-efficient vector units.