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Multithreaded Processor Architecture with Implicit Granularity Adaptation

Strumpen et al., 2005

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4507209581258116376
Author
Strumpen V
Frigo M
Gheith A
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United States Patent Application

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We propose a multithreaded processor architecture for mapping a potentially unbounded number of software threads into a bounded number of hardware threads. Our architecture degrades a fork instruction gracefully into a function call when all hardware threads are in …
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