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Ars Technica on Hyperthreading

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the multithreading-and-superthreading-too dept.

radiokills writes "Ars Technica has a highly-informative technical paper up on Hyper-Threading. It's a technical overview of how simultaneous multithreading works, and what problems it will introduce. It also explains why comparing the technology to SMP is Apples to Oranges, in a sense. Starting with the 3 GHz Pentium 4, this tech will be standard in Intel's desktop lines (it's already in the Xeon), so this is important stuff."

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  1. Terra/Cray MTA by astroboy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The company that now owns the name Cray does something very much like this on a fairly grand scale on its own architecture, the MTA (Multi-Threaded Architecture). Here, each processor switches between 128(!) hardware threads to take advantage of the sort of concurrancy you can get for waiting for memory access, etc.