The microarchitecture of the IBM eServer z900 processor

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 46, Issue 4-5, 2002, Pages 381-395

  Schwarz, Eric M ^a   Check, Mark A ^a   Shum, Chung Lung Kevin ^a   Koehler, Thomas ^b   Swaney, Scott B ^a   MacDougall, John D ^a   Krygowski, Christopher A ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b IBM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COBOL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); DATA ACQUISITION; DATA COMPRESSION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

BRANCH TARGET BUFFER (BTB);

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0036664036     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.464.0381     Document Type: Article

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