Software for Current and Future CMT Processors

This presentation discusses chip multithreading and its impact on software, with a focus on Sun technologies, especially the Solaris OS and Sun Studio tools. The author answers questions such as "What is needed for CMT?" He provides sample output, numerical results, and supporting examples.

Ruud van der Pas is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Systems Group (Compilers, Libraries, and Performance Technologies) at Sun Microsystems.

Contents include topics such as:

• The Impact of CMT on Software
• Chip-Level Parallelism
• How Do I Prepare My Software for This Kind of Parallelism?
• Overview of Some Sun CMT Features
• Solaris 10 Operating System
• Sun Studio Software
• OpenMP and CMT
• Compilers and Tools

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