Jonathan, would you happen to have pointers to papers describing the performance benefits from this, or should I just try looking on my own?Intel recently demonstrated a technique it calls asymmetric multithreading on a prototype Itanium processor that uses as many as 24 short "helper threads" generated by a compiler to pre-fetch and speculatively execute data, improving a CPU's single-thread performance. The technique will appear in Xeon and Itanium CPUs "very soon," said Justin Rattner, director of Intel's microprocessor research lab.
Asymmetric multi-threading
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I have no links. But I am intrigued.
http://www.intel.com/research/mrl/news/ ... ecture.pdf
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This is what Google has to say.
Shen!!!
http://www.intel.com/research/mrl/news/ ... ecture.pdf
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This is what Google has to say.
Shen!!!
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Here's the web page of the compiler team responsible for this. They don't seem to have any of their publications online.
Here's the web page of the compiler team responsible for this. They don't seem to have any of their publications online.