CMT Whitepaper

This white paper highlights the technical benefits Sun's chip multithreading (CMT) UltraSPARC T2 processor delivers to multithreaded applications, and provides detailed examples of significant performance gains in three application workloads: telco, cryptography, and string searching.

White Paper: Multithreaded Application Acceleration with Chip Multithreading (CMT)

Niagara: A 32-Way Multithreaded SPARC Processor

Written by Poonacha Kongetira, Kathirgamar Aingaran, Kunle Olukotun

Thursday, 01 December 2005 15:00

IEEE Micro Magazine 2005.
The Niagara processor implements a thread-rich architecture designed to provide a high-performance solution for commercial server applications. The hardware supports 32 threads with a memory subsystem consisting of an on-board crossbar, level-2 cache, and memory controllers for a highly integrated design that exploits the thread-level parallelism inherent to server applications, while targeting low levels of power consumption.

Niagara: A 32-Way Multithreaded SPARC Processor

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