This communication sets an evaluation framework and performs a comparative analysis of the UltraSPARC-III and the IA-64 processor architectures. It starts with an overview of a pure RISC architecture and the new EPIC technology. It then presents the unique combination of innovative features that both manufacturers claim explicit parallelism, predication and speculative loading – and the goals f...

Neurons in area MT of primate visual cortex encode the velocity of moving objects. We present a model of how MT cells aggregate responses from V1 to form such a velocity representation. Two diierent sets of units, with local receptive elds, receive inputs from motion energy lters. One set of units forms estimates of local motion, while the second set computes the utility of these estimates. Out...