MICROPROCESSORS ARE MULTI-CORE – AND WE?
Image 1. Processor performance growth from 1978 to 2005
Image 2. Increasing the number of transistors and processor clock speed from 1973 to 2010
Table 1: Different types of memory
Image 3. Increasing the gap between CPU performance and DRAM performance
Image 4. Examples of using cache memory
Image 5. Hardware multithreading
Image 6. Connecting processors (and associated parts of main memory) to hypercubes
Image 7. The IBM BlueGene / Q processor has 18 cores
Image 8. Increasing the number of cores
Image 9. Amdahl’s law
Zlatko Sirotić, Istra information engineering, Pula
“Mreža, 12 / 2012”