High Performance Throughput Computing

This presentation was made at the PARC Forum:  March 2, 2006,  4:00 p.m.,  George E. Pake Auditorium,  Palo Alto,  CA , USA

This is the first Forum in a three part series exploring the benefits and challenges of Multicore computing. Marc Tremblay will be talking about the performance enhancements achieved using Sun's 8 core Niagara computer chip. 

Dr. Marc Tremblay is a Sun Fellow, Vice President, and Chief Architect for Sun's Scalable Systems Group. In his role Tremblay sets future directions for Sun's processor and system roadmap. His mission is to move the entire product line to the Throughput Computing paradigm, incorporating techniques he has helped develop over the past several years, including; Chip Multiprocessing, Chip Multithreading, speculative multithreading, and assist threading.

Throughput Computing, achieved through a new generation of microprocessors composed of multiple multi-threaded cores, can lead to performance improvements that are 10 to 30x those of conventional processors and systems. In this talk I will discuss how the value of a robust, high-performance single thread leads to even higher throughput rates. I will also describe some of the techniques we are implementing in future mainstream processors that accomplish the somewhat conflicting goal of attacking both latency and throughput. 

Audio and Video of Marc's presentation is here: http://www.parc.xerox.com/cms/get_article.php?id=530

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