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Chip Multiprocessor Architecture: Techniques to Improve Throughput and Latency
Contributor(s): Olukotun, Kunle (Author)

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 ISBN: 159829122X     ISBN-13: 9781598291223
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
OUR PRICE: $38.00  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: December 2007
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BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering
Dewey: 004.22
Series: Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture
Physical Information: 0.32" H x 7.51" W x 9.28" L (0.64 lbs) 143 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
 
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Chip multiprocessors - also called multi-core microprocessors or CMPs for short - are now the only way to build high-performance microprocessors, for a variety of reasons. Large uniprocessors are no longer scaling in performance, because it is only possible to extract a limited amount of parallelism from a typical instruction stream using conventional superscalar instruction issue techniques. In addition, one cannot simply ratchet up the clock speed on today's processors, or the power dissipation will become prohibitive in all but water-cooled systems. Compounding these problems is the simple fact that with the immense numbers of transistors available on today's microprocessor chips, it is too costly to design and debug ever-larger processors every year or two. CMPs avoid these problems by filling up a processor die with multiple, relatively simpler processor cores instead of just one huge core. The exact size of a CMPs cores can vary from very simple pipelines to moderately complex superscalar processors, but once a core has been selected the CMPs performance can easily scale across silicon process generations simply by stamping down more copies of the hard-to-design, high-speed processor core in each successive chip generation. In addition, parallel code execution, obtained by spreading multiple threads of execution across the various cores, can achieve significantly higher performance than would be possible using only a single core. While parallel threads are already common in many useful workloads, there are still important workloads that are hard to divide into parallel threads. The low inter-processor communication latency between the cores in a CMP helps make a much wider range of applications viable candidates for parallel execution than was possible with conventional, multi-chip multiprocessors; nevertheless, limited parallelism in key applications is the main factor limiting acceptance of CMPs in some types of systems.
 
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