1. Introduction

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 2

2. The Need for Fast Communication in Hardware-Based Speculative Chip Multiprocessors

   • Venkata Krishnan
   • Josep Torrellas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 33

3. An Exploration of Instruction Fetch Requirement in Out-of-Order Superscalar Processors

   • Pierre Michaud
   • André Seznec
   • Stéphan Jourdan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 58

4. Dynamic Code Partitioning for Clustered Architectures

   • Ramon Canal
   • Joan-Manuel Parcerisa
   • Antonio González

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 79

5. Selective Branch Inversion: Confidence Estimation for Branch Predictors

   • Artur Klauser
   • Srilatha Manne
   • Dirk Grunwald

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 110