caa a22 4500 445852305 CHVBK 20180317145417.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11227-011-0573-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11227-011-0573-9 A moving threads processor architecture MTPA [Elektronische Daten] [M. Forsell, V. Leppänen] Moving threads is a new kind of approach for multicore processor architectures. Traditionally, each thread stays in the core where it is created, and data is moved from the main memory via caches to each core and thread. In the moving threads approach, each core can access only a certain portion of the main memory via its local memory block, and thus extremely lightweight threads are moved between the cores. As a consequence, all kinds of cache coherence problems and need for read reply messages are eliminated. Also Lamport's sequential consistency of shared memory multiprocessor systems is achieved for free. In this paper, we propose a processor architecture (MTPA) for the moving threads paradigm. We describe the overall structure, operation, instruction set, and thread management mechanism as well as evaluate the proposed architecture with different functional unit settings with simulations and give early silicon area and power consumption estimates. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Moving threads nationallicence Parallel computing nationallicence MP-SOC nationallicence Processor architecture nationallicence Computer architecture nationallicence Forsell M. Platform Architectures Team, VTT, Kaitoväylä 1, 90570, Oulu, Finland aut Leppänen V. Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, 20013, Turku, Finland aut The Journal of Supercomputing Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 57/1(2011-07-01), 5-19 0920-8542 57:1<5 2011 57 11227 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-011-0573-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-011-0573-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Forsell M. Platform Architectures Team, VTT, Kaitoväylä 1, 90570, Oulu, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Leppänen V. Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, 20013, Turku, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Supercomputing Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 57/1(2011-07-01), 5-19 0920-8542 57:1<5 2011 57 11227 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer