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...
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...
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...
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...
This paper examines simultaneous multithreading, a technique permitting several independent threads to issue instructions to a superscalar's multiple functional units in a si...
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...