Intel Corporation

Samkit Jain

Joshua B Fryman

Ankit More

Jason M Howard

Robert Pawlowski

Vincent Cave

Shaden Smith

Sriram Aananthakrishnan

Sowmya Pitchaimoorthy

Tina C Zhong

Bharadwaj Krishnamurthy

Fabrizio Petrini

Michael Abbott

Sang Phill Park

Scott Cline

Ivan Ganev

William Paul Griffin

Vincent Cavé

Paul Griffin

Disclosed embodiments relate to an improved memory system architecture for multi-threaded processors. In one example, a system includes a system comprising a multi-threaded processor core (MTPC), the MTPC comprising: P pipelines, each to concurrently process T threads; a crossbar to communicatively couple the P pipelines; a memory for use by the P pipelines, a scheduler to optimize reduction operations by assigning multiple threads to generate results of commutative arithmetic operations, and then accumulate the generated results, and a memory controller (MC) to connect with external storage and other MTPCs, the MC further comprising at least one optimization selected from: an instruction set architecture including a dual-memory operation; a direct memory access (DMA) engine; a buffer to store multiple pending instruction cache requests; multiple channels across which to stripe memory requests; and a shadow-tag coherency management unit.

Memory system architecture for multi-threaded processors

Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for scheduling tasks to hardware threads are described. In an embodiment, a processor includes a multiple hardware threads and a task manager. The task manager is to issue a task to a hardware thread. The task manager includes a hardware task queue to store a descriptor for the task. The descriptor is to include a field to store a value to indicate whether the task is a single task, a collection of iterative tasks, and a linked list of tasks.

Multithreaded processor core with hardware-assisted task scheduling

In one embodiment, a first processor core includes: a plurality of execution pipelines each to execute instructions of one or more threads; a plurality of pipeline barrier circuits coupled to the plurality of execution pipelines, each of the plurality of pipeline barrier circuits associated with one of the plurality of execution pipelines to maintain status information for a plurality of barrier groups, each of the plurality of barrier groups formed of at least two threads; and a core barrier circuit to control operation of the plurality of pipeline barrier circuits and to inform the plurality of pipeline barrier circuits when a first barrier has been reached by a first barrier group of the plurality of barrier groups. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

System, apparatus and method for barrier synchronization in a multi-threaded processor

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Samkit Jain