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...rent architectures in our class reading. The article mentions several alternative approaches to exploit parallelism. In this paper, we explore the Tera computer system[2] and the multiscalar processor=-=[3]-=-. We describe their basic characteristics and take a look at what happened in history: how it fared in industry for the case of the Tera architecture and the progress of present researches for the cas...

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...ng (SMT)[1] was compared to different architectures in our class reading. The article mentions several alternative approaches to exploit parallelism. In this paper, we explore the Tera computer system=-=[2]-=- and the multiscalar processor[3]. We describe their basic characteristics and take a look at what happened in history: how it fared in industry for the case of the Tera architecture and the progress ...

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...introduces complexities both in hardware and in software. Studying the Tera Computer System and the multiscalar processor gives us a glimpse of these. I. INTRODUCTION Simultaneous multithreading (SMT)=-=[1]-=- was compared to different architectures in our class reading. The article mentions several alternative approaches to exploit parallelism. In this paper, we explore the Tera computer system[2] and the...

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... MTA system was relaunched as the Cray MTA-2. Although this computer is quite promising in performance due to its builtin scalability, it was not a commercial success and only shipped to two customers=-=[5]-=-. The original Tera computer turned out to be nearly unmanufacturable due to its aggressive packaging and circuit technology[6]. A. Characteristics III. MULTISCALAR PROCESSORS For a multiscalar proces...

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...bility, it was not a commercial success and only shipped to two customers[5]. The original Tera computer turned out to be nearly unmanufacturable due to its aggressive packaging and circuit technology=-=[6]-=-. A. Characteristics III. MULTISCALAR PROCESSORS For a multiscalar processor, a single program is divided into a collection of tasks by a combination of software andshardware. These multiple tasks exe...