The Opteron uses an innovative routing switch and a direct connect architecture that allows "glueless" multiprocessing between the two processor cores.
In this figure, we display the relative energy for (a) fully connected architectures and reduced connectivity without bypassing and (b) fully connected architectures and reduced connectivity with software bypassing.
This allows for fully connected architectures, with most compiler freedom to choose how to transport data between the source and destination, as well as heavily reduced connectivity, with buses connecting only a small number of components.
We observe that in cases where connectivity reduction caused a slight increase in register file energy or interconnection energy, the sum of those two still shows minimal difference compared to fully connected architectures.
In this figure, we display the relative energy without bypassing in the left side and the relative energy with bypassing in the right side, normalized to the case with fully connected architectures without software bypassing with top-down scheduler.
A fully connected architecture would have connection to all buses in each socket.
The paper has a multidisciplinary character connecting Architecture and Civil Engineering.
Geddes connected architecture with the humanities and social sciences, and with public affairs and urban design.
This paper aims to provide a debate on the multidisciplinary research achievements and knowledge concerning the Cistercian architectonic legacy in Portugal, connecting Architecture, Civil Engineering, Heritage, and History.
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Specifically, on Figure 11a, FC TD denotes a fully connected architecture configuration with top-down scheduling, RC TD denotes an architecture with reduced connectivity with top-down scheduling, FC BU denotes a fully connected architecture configuration with bottom-up scheduling, and RC BU denotes an architecture with reduced connectivity with bottom-up scheduling.
