Author :
Shah, Manish ; Golla, Robert ; Grohoski, Greg ; Jordan, Paul ; Barreh, Jama ; Brooks, Jeff ; Greenberg, Mark ; Levinsky, Gideon ; Luttrell, Mark ; Olson, Christopher ; Samoail, Zeid ; Smittle, Matt ; Ziaja, Tom
Abstract :
The Sparc T4 is the next generation of Oracle´s multicore, multithreaded 64-bit Sparc server processor. It delivers significant performance improvements over its predecessor, the Sparc T3 processor. The authors describe Sparc T4´s key features and detail the microarchitecture of the dynamically threaded S3 processor core, which is implemented on Sparc T4.
Keywords :
computer architecture; microprocessor chips; multiprocessing systems; S3 processor core; Sparc T4; dynamically threaded server-on-a-chip; microarchitecture; multicore processor; multithreaded 64-bit Sparc server processor; word length 64 bit; Microprocessors; computer architecture; computer systems organization; microarchitecture implementation considerations; multicore/single-chip multiprocessors; multithreaded processors; parallel architectures; pipeline processors; processor architectures; support for multithreaded execution; support for security;
