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Future of Coarse-Grained Multithreading by Archana Rk is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document discusses future processor designs that leverage coarse-grained parallelism through techniques like simultaneous multithreading (SMT). SMT allows a superscalar processor to issue instructions from multiple threads simultaneously by providing several register sets and instruction queues. Research is examining SMT designs with 8 threads and 8-way issue that could achieve over 6x speedup versus a single-threaded processor. While SMT can better utilize hardware resources, chip multiprocessors may
- Author
- Archana Rk
- Language
- EN