Performance Evaluation of Multithreaded Architectures for Media Processing Applications

Balakrishnan, S and Nandy, SK (2000) Performance Evaluation of Multithreaded Architectures for Media Processing Applications. In: 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. ISCAS 2000, 28-31 May, Geneva,Switzerland, Vol.1, 531-534.

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Abstract

In this paper, we present an architecture framework called SYMPHONY consisting of a linear array of processors that exploits parallelism in media applications at micro (ILP) and macro (threads) levels. High speed communication and synchronization necessary for efficient multitheading is achieved using novel hardware and software mechanisms. We demonstrate the efficacy of the SYMPHONY framework by performance evaluation of an instance in the framework. We show that multithreaded architectures coupled with SIMD parallelism provides performance improvement in excess of 2% over conventional superscalar architectures.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	IEEE
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Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Supercomputer Education & Research Centre
Date Deposited:	27 Feb 2006
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:24
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/5719

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