Instruction-Level Parallelism: A Special Issue of The Journal of Supercomputing

by B.R. Rau (Editor), J.A. Fisher (Editor)

Instruction-Level Parallelism presents a collection of papers that attempts to capture the most significant work that took place during the 1980s in the area of instruction-level (ILP) parallel processing. The papers in this book discuss both compiler techniques and actual implementation experience on very long instruction word (VLIW) and superscalar architectures.

282 pages, Hardcover

First published May 31, 1993

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the few books that discusses the Multiflow and Cydrome VLIWs.

This includes the following papers:
Instruction-Level Parallel Processing: History, Overview, and Perspective
B. Ramakrishna Rau and Joseph A. Fisher

The Multiflow Trace Scheduling Compiler
P. Geoffrey Lowney, Stefan M. Freudenberger, Thomas J. Karzes,
W.D. Lichtenstein, Robert P. Nix, John S. O'Donnell, and John C. Ruttenberg

The Cydra 5 Minisupercomputer: Architecture and Implementation
Gary R. Beck, David W. Llen, and Thomas L. Anderson

Compiling for the Cydra 5
James C. Dehnert and Ross A. Towle

The Superblock: An Effective Technique for VLIW and Superscalar Compilation
Wen-mei W. Hwu, Scott A. Mahlke, William Y. Chen, Pohua P. Chang, Nancy J. Warter, Roger A. Bringmann, Roland G. Ouellette, Richard E. Hank, Tokuzo Kiyohara, Grant E. Haab, John G Holm, and Daniel M. Lavery

Instruction-Level Experimental Evaluation of the Multiflow TRACE 14/300 VLIW Computer
Michael A. Schuette and John P. Shen