并行处理与体系结构课件hitsz-lec05.pptx

Threading Simultaneous Multithreading Slides adapted from David Patterson, UC-Berkeley cs252-s06 1 2 Outline Thread Level Parallelism Multithreading Simultaneous Multithreading Power 4 vs. Power 5 Head to Head: VLIW vs. Superscalar vs. SMT Commentary Conclusion 3 Performance beyond single thread ILP ILP for arbitrary code is limited now to 3 to 6 issues/cycle, there can be much higher natural parallelism in some applications (e.g., database or scientific codes) Explicit (specified by compiler) Thread Level Parallelism or Data Level Parallelism Thread: a process with its own instructions and