JOURNAL ARTICLE

Runahead Threads: Reducing Resource Contention in SMT Processors

Tanausú RamírezAlex PajueloOliverio J. SantanaMateo Valero

Year: 2007 Journal:   Proceedings of the ... Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques/Proceedings of the Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques Pages: 423-423   Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Abstract

In this work, we propose Runahead threads as a valuable solution for both exploiting memory-level parallelism and reducing resource contention in simultaneous multithreaded processors.

Keywords:
Computer science Parallel computing Parallelism (grammar) Resource (disambiguation) Task parallelism Distributed computing Computer network

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Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
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