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- From: zs@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Zoltan Somogyi)
- Subject: Re: Multi threaded CPUs
- Message-ID: <9224618.12185@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1811llINN3ci@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <BtxGvn.8MH@pix.com> <BtxHG0.8rz@pix.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 08:59:06 GMT
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- stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne) writes:
- >A little while ago I read about a RISC CPU (SPARC I think) that some
- >researchers had designed. It had a cache of threads (I got the impresion
- >that that includes registers, and posabble MMU state as well), four in
- >the current chip, and when there was a pipe stall the execution would just
- >switch to another thread.
-
- The paper you are looking for is in the proceedings of the 1990 International
- Symposium on Computer Architecture, on page 104. It is by Agarwal, Lim, Kranz
- and Kubiatowicz, and its title is "APRIL: a processor architecture for
- multiprocessing". It describes the MIT Alewaife machine.
-
- Zoltan Somogyi <zs@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Department of Computer Science, University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
-