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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSundeep Chadha, Robert A. Cordes, David A. Hrusecky, Hung Q. Le, Jentje Leenstra, Dung Q. Nguyen, Brian W. Thompto, Albert J. Van Norstrand, Jr.
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Handling unaligned load operations, including: receiving a request to load data stored within a range of addresses; determining that the range of addresses includes addresses associated with a plurality of caches, wherein each of the plurality of caches are associated with a distinct processor slice; issuing, to each distinct processor slice, a request to load data stored within a cache associated with the distinct processor slice, wherein the request to load data stored within the cache associated with the distinct processor slice includes a portion of the range of addresses; executing, by each distinct processor slice, the request to load data stored within the cache associated with the distinct processor slice; and receiving, over a plurality of data communications busses, execution results from each distinct processor slice, wherein each data communications busses is associated with one of the distinct processor slices.
A multi-slice computer processor, the multi-slice computer processor configured for:
A computing system, the computing system including a multi-slice computer processor, the multi-slice computer processor configured for:
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