Prototyping the DySER specialization architecture with OpenSPARC

This paper describes the prototype implementation of the DySER specialization architecture integrated into the OpenSPARC processor. The paper´s description covers the hardware, compiler, and application tuning. The prototype system provides speedups up to 14× over OpenSPARC (geometric mean 5×). The architecture is more flexible than SIMD and GPU-based acceleration while supporting a more diverse set of workloads.