Performance Enhancement of Computer Systems Through Revolutional Approaches

Computer modeling and simulation of scientific applications require faster computer systems than ever. The fact that the improvement of the computer system performance through evolutional approaches has almost reached its physical limitation and researchers started to seek the required enhancement of the system performance through revolutional approaches such as pipelining and parallel processing, using advanced processor architectures such as that of the Niagara family of processors that has been pioneered by Oracle®. In this paper, we will present an overview of some of the important aspects of such architectures while emphasizing on the pipelining techniques that lead to the performance enhancement of such systems.