Multithreading Basics: Design, Performance, and Impact

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Architecture Essentials: Understanding Computer Systems

Provides an overview of computer architecture, focusing on the von Neumann architecture and its components, including the CPU and memory management units.

Dynamic Scheduling

Explores dynamic scheduling in processor design to increase parallelism by executing instructions out of order, improving performance and efficiency.

Dynamic Scheduling: Extending Pipelining for Parallelism

Delves into dynamic scheduling to enhance pipelining and enable out-of-order execution for improved performance.

Superscalars: Execution and Cache Requirements

Explores superscalar processors and cache optimization for improved performance.

Performance: Hardware and Software Optimization

Explores hardware and software optimization for system performance, emphasizing the importance of reducing delay per gate and improving architecture.

Threads: Concurrency and Parallelism in Computer Systems

Covers the thread abstraction in computer systems, focusing on concurrency, parallelism, and the management of threads using the POSIX API.

VLIW: Dynamically Scheduled Processors

Explores VLIW processors, focusing on scheduling complexity, ILP limitations, and code bloating.

Transitioning to Multithreaded Programming: Key Concepts

Covers the transition from single-threaded to multithreaded programming, focusing on memory models and consistency issues.

Optimizing Software: Software Optimizations

Covers software optimizations to improve program performance by maximizing cache hits and optimizing work distribution.

Pipelining

Explores pipelining in processors, covering stages, hazards, and solutions for efficient execution.