TY - GEN
T1 - Using speculative multithreading for general-purpose applications
AU - Yew, Pen Chung
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - As multi-core technology is currently deployed in computer industry primarily for limiting power consumption and improving system throughput, continued performance improvement of a single application on such systems remains an important and challenging task. Using thread-level parallelism (TLP) to improve instruction-level parallelism (ILP), i.e. to improve the number of instructions executed per clock cycle, has shown to be effective for many general-purpose applications. However, because of the program characteristics of these applications, effective speculative schemes at both thread and instruction levels are crucial. In the past few years, we have seen significant progress being made in the architectures and the compiler techniques to support such thread-level speculative execution model. In this talk, we will discuss these architectural and compiler issues, in particular, the compiler techniques that could support speculative multithreading for general-purpose applications.
AB - As multi-core technology is currently deployed in computer industry primarily for limiting power consumption and improving system throughput, continued performance improvement of a single application on such systems remains an important and challenging task. Using thread-level parallelism (TLP) to improve instruction-level parallelism (ILP), i.e. to improve the number of instructions executed per clock cycle, has shown to be effective for many general-purpose applications. However, because of the program characteristics of these applications, effective speculative schemes at both thread and instruction levels are crucial. In the past few years, we have seen significant progress being made in the architectures and the compiler techniques to support such thread-level speculative execution model. In this talk, we will discuss these architectural and compiler issues, in particular, the compiler techniques that could support speculative multithreading for general-purpose applications.
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U2 - 10.1007/11576235_2
DO - 10.1007/11576235_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33646701604
SN - 3540297693
SN - 9783540297697
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 2
BT - Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications - Third International Symposium, ISPA 2005, Proceedings
T2 - 3rd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, ISPA 2005
Y2 - 2 November 2005 through 5 November 2005
ER -