• 기술사
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2000

Within 10years, it will be possible to integrate 10B transistors on a single chip microprocessor which wilt operate far beyond GHZ, and it will execute about 20-200 instructions per clock cycle from widely variable instruction streams leveraging SMT(Simultaneous Multithreading) technology . Also it will decouple the current legacy X86 binary compatibility by translation layer such as code morphing technology.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.13-24
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• 2000

As more transistors are integrated onto bigger die, an on-chip multiprocessor will become a promising alternative to the superscalar microprocessor that dominates today's microprocessor marketplace. This paper describes key parts of a new on-chip multiprocessor, called Raptor, which is composed of four 2-way superscalar processor cores and one graphic co-processor. To obtain performance characteristics of Raptor, a program-driven simulator and its programming environment were developed. The simulation results showed that Raptor can exploit thread level parallelism effectively and offer a promising architecture for future on-chip multi-processor designs.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.576-586
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• 2008

In most parallel loops of embedded applications, every iteration executes the exact same sequence of instructions while manipulating different data. This fact motivates a new compiler-hardware orchestrated execution framework in which all parallel threads share one fetch unit and one decode unit but have their own execution, memory, and write-back units. This resource sharing enables parallel threads to execute in lockstep with minimal hardware extension and compiler support. Our proposed architecture, called multithreaded lockstep execution processor (MLEP), is a compromise between the single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) and symmetric multithreading/chip multiprocessor (SMT/CMP) solutions. The proposed approach is more favorable than a typical SIMD execution in terms of degree of parallelism, range of applicability, and code generation, and can save more power and chip area than the SMT/CMP approach without significant performance degradation. For the architecture verification, we extend a commercial 32-bit embedded core AE32000C and synthesize it on Xilinx FPGA. Compared to the original architecture, our approach is 13.5% faster with a 2-way MLEP and 33.7% faster with a 4-way MLEP in EEMBC benchmarks which are automatically parallelized by the Intel compiler.

• 정보처리학회논문지A
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• 제13A권2호
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• pp.137-146
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• 2006

최근 Chip-level MuitiThreading(CMT) 기술을 내장한 프로세서 들이 출시되면서 그들을 기반으로 하는 공유 메모리 다중 프로세서(SMP: Shared Memory Multiprocessor) 서버 또한 그 사용이 점점 더 보편화 되고있다. OpenMP는 그 사용의 효율성으로 인하여 SMP 시스템을 위한 응용 프로그램의 병렬화를 위한 표준이 되었다. 고성능 컴퓨팅(HPC: High Performance Computing) 응용프로그램 분야에서 더욱 더 빠른 컴퓨터의 처리 능력에 대한 요구가 증가함에 따라, OpenMP 지시어를 사용하여 병렬화된 HPC 응용 프로그램 들의 성능과 확장성을 높이는 일은 그 중요성이 점차 증대되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 CMT 기술을 내장한 대용량 SMP서버인 Sun Fire E25K에서 OpenMP 지시어를 사용하여 병렬화된 HPC 응용 프로그램 들의 suite인 SPEC OMPL(OpenMP를 위한 표준 벤치마크 suite)의 성능과 확장성에 관해 연구했다. 본 논문에서는 또한 SPEC OMPL에 대한 CMT 기술의 효능을 평가하였다.