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Federation: Boosting per-thread performance of throughput-oriented manycore architectures by Michael Boyer; David Tarjan; Kevin Skadron is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Federation: Boosting per-thread performance of throughput-oriented manycore architectures about?

Manycore architectures designed for parallel workloads are likely to use simple, highly multithreaded, in-order cores. This maximizes throughput, but only with enough threads to keep hardware utilized. For applications or phases with more limited parallelism, we describe creating an out-of-order processor on-the-fly, by __federating__ two neighboring in-order cores. We reuse the large register file in the multithreaded cores to implement some out-of-order structures and reengineer other large, associative structures into simpler lookup tables. The resulting federated core provides twice the single-thread performance of the underlying in-order core, allowing the architecture to efficiently support a wider range of parallelism.

Who reads Federation: Boosting per-thread performance of throughput-oriented manycore architectures?

It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Computer Science.

Author
Michael Boyer; David Tarjan; Kevin Skadron
Publisher
ACM
Published
2010
Language
EN
Field
Computer Science (Physical Sciences)