Title :
UltraSPARC: compiling for maximum floating-point performance
Author :
Tirumalai, P. ; Greenley, D. ; Beylin, B. ; Subramanian, K.
Author_Institution :
SPARC Technol. Bus., Sun Microsystems Inc, Mountain View, CA, USA
Abstract :
UltraSPARC-I is the first microprocessor from Sun Microsystems to implement the new 64-bit SPARC V9 architecture. UltraSPARC-I is a superscalar processor capable of issuing up to four instructions together and possesses several features designed to enable high performance on a variety of applications. While UltraSPARC-I maintains strict binary compatibility with and delivers excellent performance on thousands of existing 32-bit applications developed for other SPARC processors, even more benefit can be derived by using a compiler that specifically targets it. This paper discusses various features of UltraSPARC-I and the compiler techniques used to leverage them to obtain high performance on many floating point programs.
Keywords :
computer architecture; floating point arithmetic; microprocessor chips; multiprocessing systems; performance evaluation; program compilers; 32 bit; 64 bit; SPARC V9 architecture; Sun Microsystems; UltraSPARC; UltraSPARC-I; binary compatibility; compiler; floating point programs; high performance; instructions; maximum floating-point performance; microprocessor; superscalar processor; Application software; Clocks; Computer architecture; Hardware; Microprocessors; Pipelines; Prefetching; Program processors; Software performance; Sun;
Conference_Titel :
Compcon '96. 'Technologies for the Information Superhighway' Digest of Papers
Conference_Location :
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7414-8
DOI :
10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501803
