Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures.

The article examines the development of throughput-oriented microprocessor architectures. This development comes in tandem with the transition of microprocessors from single-core to multicore chips, a trend that is most evident in central processing unit (CPU) processor families. This technology ach...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 11; pp. 58 - 67
Autores principales:	GARLAND, MICHAEL, KIRK, DAVID B.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Nov2010
Materias:	Microprocessor design & construction Computer architecture Parallel computers Molecular dynamics Simultaneous multithreading processors Computational mathematics
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Sumario:	The article examines the development of throughput-oriented microprocessor architectures. This development comes in tandem with the transition of microprocessors from single-core to multicore chips, a trend that is most evident in central processing unit (CPU) processor families. This technology achieves a higher level of performance by exploiting modestly parallel workloads. The author examines numerous aspects of microprocessor evolution, including core computations used in molecular dynamics, hardware multithreading, and underlying computation mathematics.