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Multi Core

Multi-core processors have become prevalent due to difficulties increasing single-core clock speeds and the emergence of multithreaded applications. Multi-core architectures place multiple processor cores on a single die or chip, allowing independent threads to be executed in parallel. Each core can run separate threads concurrently while maintaining a shared memory architecture. This enables better exploitation of thread-level parallelism compared to single-core processors. Many modern applications that serve multiple clients, perform different computations, or can be separated into parallel tasks are well-suited to multi-core architectures.

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Multi Core

Multi-core processors have become prevalent due to difficulties increasing single-core clock speeds and the emergence of multithreaded applications. Multi-core architectures place multiple processor cores on a single die or chip, allowing independent threads to be executed in parallel. Each core can run separate threads concurrently while maintaining a shared memory architecture. This enables better exploitation of thread-level parallelism compared to single-core processors. Many modern applications that serve multiple clients, perform different computations, or can be separated into parallel tasks are well-suited to multi-core architectures.

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Multi-core processors

Processor development till


2004

Out-of-order
Instruction
scheduling
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Why multi-core ?
Difficult to make single-core
clock frequencies even higher heat
problems
Deeply pipelined circuits:
heat problems, needs special cooling
arrangements
Intels NetBurst architecture was not continued

Many new applications are multithreaded


General trend in computer architecture
(shift towards more parallelism)
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Why multi-core ?

Single-core computer

Single-core CPU chip


the single core

Multi-core architectures
Replicate multiple processor cores on a
single die.

Core 1

Multi-core CPU chip

Core 2

Core 3

Core 4

Multi-core processor

Multi-core CPU chip


The cores fit on a single processor
socket
Also called CMP (Chip MultiProcessor)
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The cores run in parallel


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thread 4

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Within each core, threads are timesliced (just like on a uniprocessor)


several
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Interaction with the


Operating System
OS perceives each core as a separate
processor
OS scheduler maps threads/processes
to different cores
Most major OS support multi-core today:
Windows, Linux, Mac OS X,

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Instruction-level parallelism
Parallelism at the machineinstruction level
The processor can re-order, pipeline
instructions, split them into
microinstructions, do aggressive
branch prediction, etc.
Instruction-level parallelism enabled
rapid increases in processor speeds
over the last 15 years
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Thread-level parallelism
(TLP)

This is parallelism on a more coarser scale


Server can serve each client in a separate
thread (Web server, database server)
A computer game can do AI, graphics, and a
physics-related computation in three separate
threads
Single-core superscalar processors cannot fully
exploit TLP
Multi-core architectures are the next step in
processor evolution: explicitly exploiting TLP
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General context:
Multiprocessors
Multiprocessor is any
computer with several
processors
SIMD
cluster,
Single instruction, multiple dataLemieux
Pittsburgh
supercomputing
Modern graphics cards

MIMD

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Multiple instructions, multiple data


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Multiprocessor memory
types
Shared memory:
In this model, there is one (large)
common shared memory for all
processors
Distributed memory:
In this model, each processor has its
own (small) local memory, and its
content is not replicated anywhere
else

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Multi-core processor is a special kind of a multiprocessor:


All processors are on the same chip

Multi-core processors are MIMD:


Different cores execute different threads
(Multiple Instructions), operating on
different parts of memory (Multiple Data).
Multi-core is a shared memory
multiprocessor:
All cores share the same memory
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What applications benefit


from multi-core?
Database servers
Web servers (Web
commerce)
Multimedia applications
Scientific applications,
CAD/CAM
In general, applications
with
Thread-level parallelism
(as opposed to instructionlevel parallelism) are
better supported

Each can
run on its
own core

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More examples
Editing a photo while recording a TV
show through a digital video recorder
Downloading software while running
an anti-virus program
Anything that can be threaded
today will map efficiently to multicore
BUT: some applications difficult to
parallelize
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