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%T Scheduling for ILP in the \[rs]Processor\-as\-a\-Network\[rs]
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%A D.K. Arvind, S. Sotelo\-Salazar
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%E Jan F. Broenink, Gerald H. Hilderink
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2003
%X This paper explores the idea of the processor as an
asynchronous network,called the micronet, of functional
units which compute concurrently and
communicateasynchronously. A micronet\-based asynchronous
processor exposes spatial as well astemporal concurrency. We
analyse the performance of the
‘processor\-as\-a\-network’by comparing three scheduling
algorithms for exploiting Instruction Level
Parallelism(ILP). Schedulers for synchronous architectures
have relied on deterministic instructionexecution times. In
contrast, ILP scheduling in micronet\-based architectures is
achallenge as it is less certain in advance when
instructions start execution and whenresults become
available. Performance results comparing the three
schedulers are presentedfor SPEC95 benchmarks executing on a
cycle\-accurate model of the micronetarchitecture.