Multi-core processors
Processor development till
Why multi-core ?
Single-core computer
Single-core CPU chip
Multi-core architectures
Multi-core processor
Multi-core CPU chip
The cores run in parallel
Within each core, threads are time-sliced (just like on a uniprocessor)
Interaction with the Operating System
Instruction-level parallelism
Thread-level parallelism (TLP)
General context: Multiprocessors
Multiprocessor memory types
Multi-core processor is a special kind of a multiprocessor:
What applications benefit from multi-core?
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