Krashinsky et al., 2004 - Google Patents
The vector-thread architectureKrashinsky et al., 2004
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- Krashinsky R
- Batten C
- Hampton M
- Gerding S
- Pharris B
- Casper J
- Asanovic K
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- ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
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The vector-thread (VT) architectural paradigm unifies the vectorand multithreaded compute models. The VT abstraction providesthe programmer with a control processor and a vector of virtualprocessors (VPs). The control processor can use vector-fetch commandsto broadcast …
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