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DLP+TLP processors for the next generation of media workloads
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Autor/a:
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Corbal San Adrián, Jesús; Espasa Sans, Roger; Valero Cortés, Mateo
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Otros autores:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CAP - Grup de Computació d'Altes Prestacions |
Abstract:
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Future media workloads will require about two levels of magnitude the performance achieved by current general purpose processors. High uni-threaded performance will be needed to accomplish real-time constraints together with huge computational throughput, as next generation of media workloads will be eminently multithreaded (MPEG-4/MPEG-7). In order to fulfil the challenge of providing both good uni-threaded performance and throughput, we propose to join the simultaneous multithreading execution paradigm (SMT) together with the ability to execute media-oriented streaming /spl mu/-SIMD instructions. This paper evaluates the performance of two different aggressive SMT processors: one with conventional /spl mu/-SIMD extensions (such as MMX) and one with longer streaming vector /spl mu/-SIMD extensions. We will show that future media workloads are, in fact, dominated by the scalar performance. The combination of SMT plus streaming vector /spl mu/-SIMD helps alleviate the performance bottleneck of the integer unit. SMT allows |
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Peer Reviewed |
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors -Simultaneous multithreading processors -High performance computing -Performance evaluation -Multi-threading -Microprocessadors -Càlcul intensiu (Informàtica) |
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Artículo - Versión publicada Objeto de conferencia |
Editor:
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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