Download or read book Multithreaded Virtual Processor on DSM written by Ho Seok An and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern superscalar processors exploit instruction-level parallelism (ILP) by issuing multiple instructions in a single cycle because of increasing demand for higher performance in computing. However, stalls due to cache misses severely degrade the performance by disturbing the exploitation of ILP. Multiprocessors also greatly exacerbate the memory latency problem. In SMPs, contention due to the shared bus located between the processors's L2 cache and the shared memory adds additional delay to the memory latency. In distributed shared memory (DSM) systems, the memory latency problem becomes even more severe because a miss on the local memory requires access to remote memory. This limits the performance because the processor can not spend its time on useful work until the reply from the remote memory is received. There are a number of techniques that effectively reduce the memory latency. Multithreadings has emerged as one of the most promising and exciting techniques to tolerate memory latency. This thesis aims to realize a simulator that supports software-controlled multithreadings environment on a Distributed Shared Memory and to show preliminary simulation results.