Abstract :
This article firstly details the problems which are preventing industry from making the most of billion transistor chips, such a high power requirements, memory latency of both main and cache storage, and compiler inability to make use of hardware enhancements. It then examines the strategy of using multiple processors in order to speed up software execution.
Keywords :
cache storage; microprocessor chips; multiprocessing systems; program compilers; semiconductor storage; billion transistor chips; cache storage; compilers; hardware enhancements; memory latency; microprocessor power requirements; multiple processors; multiprocessing systems; software execution speed-up;
