Multithreaded computer systems

In this minisymposium speakers address architectural principles and issues of multithreaded computer systems, examine approaches to providing implicitly parallel software for these machines, and give an industrial perspective that includes the potential wider influence of multithreaded computers. Mu...

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Published inProceedings Supercomputing '92 pp. 772 - 775
Main Authors Papadopoulos, G.M., Bohm, A.P.W., Dahbura, A.T., Oldehoeft, R.R.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE Comput. Soc. Press 1992
Subjects
Computer architecture
Computer science
Concurrent computing
Delay
Hardware
Laboratories
Multithreading
Reduced instruction set computing
Switches
Yarn
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Summary:In this minisymposium speakers address architectural principles and issues of multithreaded computer systems, examine approaches to providing implicitly parallel software for these machines, and give an industrial perspective that includes the potential wider influence of multithreaded computers. Multithreaded computer systems are parallel machines in which threads are sequentially executed code segments. Each processor has hardware support for quickly switching contexts among runnable threads. Other features include some form of data matching, split-phase memory accesses, and a dataflow-like regime for thread instantiation. They combine features of conventional von Neumann systems with those of fine-grained dataflow architectures.< >
ISBN:9780818626302
0818626305
DOI:10.1109/SUPERC.1992.236686