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Implicitly-multithreaded processors

Park, Il
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Falsafi, Babak  
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Vijaykumar, T. N.
2003
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture

This paper proposes the Implicitly-MultiThreaded (IMT) architecture to execute compiler-specified speculative threads on to a modified Simultaneous Multithreading pipeline. IMT reduces hardware complexity by relying on the compiler to select suitable thread spawning points and orchestrate inter-thread register communication. To enhance IMT's effectiveness, this paper proposes three novel microarchitectural mechanisms: (1) resource- and dependence-based fetch policy to fetch and execute suitable instructions, (2) context multiplexing to improve utilization and map as many threads to a single context as allowed by availability of resources, and (3) early thread-invocation to hide thread start-up overhead by overlapping one thread's invocation with other threads' execution. We use SPEC2K benchmarks and cycle-accurate simulation to show that an microarchitecture-optimized IMT improves performance on average by 24% and at best by 69% over an aggressive superscalar. We also compare IMT to two prior proposals, TME and DMT, for speculative threading on an SMT using hardware-extracted threads. Our best IMT design outperforms a comparable TME and DMT on average by 26% and 38% respectively.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/859618.859624
Author(s)
Park, Il
Falsafi, Babak  
Vijaykumar, T. N.
Date Issued

2003

Published in
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture
Start page

39

End page

50

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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April 6, 2009
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/36936
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