Announcing our first ever MICRO TOP PICKS ISSUE! bringing you the best work from major computer architecture conferences IEEE Micro November/December 2003 http://www.computer.org/micro/ Features Guest Editors' Introduction: Micro's Top Microarchitecture Conferences Charles Moore, Kevin W. Rudd, Ruby B. Lee, and Checkpoint Processing and Recovery: An Efficient, Scalable Alternative to Reorder Haitham Akkary, Ravi Rajwar, and Srikanth T. Runahead Execution: An Effective Alternative Large Instruction Windows Onur Mutlu, Jared Stark, Chris Wilkerson, and Yale N. Patt The Jrpm System for Dynamically Parallelizing Sequential Java Programs Michael K. Chen and Kunle Olukotun Scalable Vector Processors for Embedded Systems Christoforos E. Kozyrakis and David A. Patterson Exploiting ILP, TLP, and DLP with the Polymorphous TRIPS Architecture Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Ramadass Nagarajan, Haiming Liu, Changkyu Kim, Jaehyuk Huh, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, and Charles Moore Temperature-Aware Computer Systems: Opportunities and Challenges Kevin Skadron, Mircea R. Stan, Wei Huang, Sivakumar Velusamy, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, and David Tarjan Dynamic Frequency and Voltage Scaling for a Multiple-Clock-Domain Microprocessor Grigorios Magklis, Greg Semeraro, David H. Albonesi, Steven G. Dropsho, Sandhya Dwarkadas, and Michael L. Scott Measuring Architectural Vulnerability Factors Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Christopher T. Weaver, Joel Emer, Steven K. Reinhardt, and Todd Austin Transient-Fault Recovery for Chip Multiprocessors Mohamed A. Gomaa, Chad Scarbrough, T.N. Vijaykumar, and Irith Pomeranz Discovering and Exploiting Program Phases Timothy Sherwood, Erez Perelman, Greg Hamerly, Suleyman Sair, and Brad Calder Addressing Workload Variability in Architectural Simulations Alaa R. Alameldeen and David A. Wood Nonuniform Cache Architectures for Wire-Delay Dominated On-Chip Caches Changkyu Kim, Doug Burger, and Stephen W. Keckler Token Coherence: A New Framework for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors Milo M.K. Martin, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood Transactional Execution: Toward Reliable High-Performance Multithreading Ravi Rajwar and James Goodman Speculative Synchronization: Programmability and Performance for Parallel Codes Jose F. Martinez and Josep Torrellas --------------------------------------------------- If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, send a message to listserv@computer.org with the following text in the body of the message: unsubscribe micro_subscribers --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, send a message to listserv@computer.org with the following text in the body of the message: unsubscribe micro_subscribers ---------------------------------------------------