Super-threading: architectural and software mechanisms for optimizing parallel computation

  • Authors:
  • Shuichi Sakai;Kazuaki Okamoto;Hiroshi Matsuoka;Hideo Hirono;Yuetsu Kodama;Mitsuhisa Sato

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICS '93 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Supercomputing
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

This paper presents super-threading, which generically means the architectural and software mechanisms for optimizing parallel computation. Super-threading includes architectural optimization of a processing element (PE), mechanism for supporting fast communication and computation, techniques of a compiler and a run time system for optimizing thread creation, thread allocation, tuning of granularity and data allocation to physically distributed storage.This paper states what super-threading is and examines some of the technologies belonging to it. The processor architecture based on super-threading is proposed and its implementation on a highly parallel computer EM-4 is shown with performance data. Software issues about super-threading are also examined mainly from the viewpoint of granularity optimization. Dynamic granularity optimization methods are proposed here, and evaluated on EM-4. The performance data indicate that super-threading is a key technology for realizing an efficient massively parallel computer.