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Vertical and outboard migration: a progress report

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Andrew Heller,

Andries Van DamAuthors Info & Claims

AFIPS '81: Proceedings of the May 4-7, 1981, national computer conference

Pages 69 - 74

https://doi.org/10.1145/1500412.1500422

Published: 04 May 1981 Publication History

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The primary method for gaining performance improvement on a fixed-hardware architecture is to tailor the soft components, i.e. the application program, the operating system, or the firmware, to the performance requirements. This paper deals with two specific forms of performance tuning called vertical and outboard migration. These terms refer respectively to migrating (pieces of) functions from higher levels to lower levels in a software/firmware/hardware hierarchy and to migrating such functionality to auxiliary processors such as I/O processors which can run in parallel with the CPU to offload it. The performance gains in vertical migration result from the elimination of CPU overhead, while those in outboard migration result from the ability to offload the CPU and have separate (special-purpose) processors execute the migrated code asynchronously and in parallel with CPU execution.

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Charlton CLeng PLittle J(1991)Vertical migration of numerical routines in software and microcodeSoftware: Practice and Experience10.1002/spe.438021030521:3(287-297)Online publication date: Mar-1991
https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380210305
Das SNayak A(1990)A survey on bit dimension optimization strategies of microprograms[1990] Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Workshop and Symposium@m_MICRO 23: Microprogramming and Microarchitecture10.1109/MICRO.1990.151455(281-291)Online publication date: 1990
https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRO.1990.151455

Vertical and outboard migration: a progress report
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques

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Charlton CLeng PLittle J(1991)Vertical migration of numerical routines in software and microcodeSoftware: Practice and Experience10.1002/spe.438021030521:3(287-297)Online publication date: Mar-1991
https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380210305
Das SNayak A(1990)A survey on bit dimension optimization strategies of microprograms[1990] Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Workshop and Symposium@m_MICRO 23: Microprogramming and Microarchitecture10.1109/MICRO.1990.151455(281-291)Online publication date: 1990
https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRO.1990.151455

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