Introduction to the Special Issue on the 2008 Workshop on Design, Analysis, and Simulation of Chip Multiprocessors (dasCMP'08)

摘要

Chip multiprocessor architectures are becoming increasingly attractive as an option to provide high instruction throughput while keeping power and complexity under control. Such architectures have also been shown to have scalability and productivity advantages. Multi-core processors are now mainstream.rnHowever, putting multiple cores on a die throws open several interesting research and design issues. From choosing the number of cores on the die to choosing the complexity of these cores, from constructing a chip multiprocessor out of off-the-shelf cores to creating a customized "multi-core aware" multi-core design, there are several difficult questions that need to be addressed.