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Introduction To Multi-Core Architecture

This document introduces multi-core architecture and discusses concurrency in software and hardware. It explains that multi-core processors use multiple physical processors on a single chip to allow parallel execution through thread-level parallelism. This increases efficiency by making use of idle resources. It also describes how simultaneous multi-threading creates logical processors by duplicating the architecture space on a single physical processor to enable parallel execution.

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Introduction To Multi-Core Architecture

This document introduces multi-core architecture and discusses concurrency in software and hardware. It explains that multi-core processors use multiple physical processors on a single chip to allow parallel execution through thread-level parallelism. This increases efficiency by making use of idle resources. It also describes how simultaneous multi-threading creates logical processors by duplicating the architecture space on a single physical processor to enable parallel execution.

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Introduction to Multi-Core Architecture

Motivation for Concurrency in Software


Most end users have a simplistic view of complex
computer systems.
Concurrency in software

efficient use of system resources

parallel Execution
Parallel Computing Platforms
Parallel Computing in
Microprocessors
 Instruction-level parallelism
 Thread-level parallelism
using a pre-emptive, or time-sliced, multitasking operating system.
increase the number of physical processors in the computer
 In order to define a thread, only the architecture state is required.
A logical processor can thus be created by duplicating this
architecture space.
The execution resources are then shared among the different logical
processors.
This technique is known as simultaneous multi-threading, or SMT.
Intel’s implementation of SMT is known as Hyper-Threading
Technology, or HT Technology.
The next logical step from simultaneous multi-threading is
the multi-core processor. Multicore processors use chip
multiprocessing (CMP).
Differentiating Multi-Core
Architectures from Hyper-Threading
Technology

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