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GECCO
2009
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Improving SMT performance: an application of genetic algorithms to configure resizable caches
Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) is a technology aimed at improving the throughput of the processor core by applying Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) and Thread Level Parallel...
Josefa Díaz, José Ignacio Hidalgo, F...
SIGOPS
2008
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14 years 11 days ago
Do commodity SMT processors need more OS research?
The availability of Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) in commodity processors such as the Pentium 4 (P4) has raised interest among OS researchers. While earlier simulation studies...
Yaoping Ruan, Vivek S. Pai, Erich M. Nahum, John M...
DAMON
2006
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Realizing parallelism in database operations: insights from a massively multithreaded architecture
A new trend in processor design is increased on-chip support for multithreading in the form of both chip multiprocessors and simultaneous multithreading. Recent research in databa...
John Cieslewicz, Jonathan W. Berry, Bruce Hendrick...
ISCA
1996
IEEE
102views Hardware» more  ISCA 1996»
14 years 4 months ago
Exploiting Choice: Instruction Fetch and Issue on an Implementable Simultaneous Multithreading Processor
Simultaneous multithreading is a technique that permits multiple independent threads to issue multiple instructions each cycle. In previous work we demonstrated the performance po...
Dean M. Tullsen, Susan J. Eggers, Joel S. Emer, He...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
139views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
14 years 4 months ago
Simultaneous Multithreading: Maximizing On-Chip Parallelism
This paper examines simultaneous multithreading, a technique permitting several independent threads to issue instructions to a superscalar's multiple functional units in a si...
Dean M. Tullsen, Susan J. Eggers, Henry M. Levy
IEEEPACT
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Initial Observations of the Simultaneous Multithreading Pentium 4 Processor
This paper analyzes an Intel Pentium 4 hyper-threading processor. The focus is to understand its performance and the underlying reasons behind that performance. Particular attenti...
Nathan Tuck, Dean M. Tullsen