Computer Science › Section C · Data manipulation › Topic C.7
Other architectures: pipelining and multiprocessors
There is a limit to how fast one instruction can be carried out, so modern processors get more done by doing several things at once: overlapping the steps of the machine cycle, and putting many processors to work together.
In this topic
- Faster, or more at once?
- Pipelining
- Worked example: timing a pipeline
- Hazards: when the pipeline stalls
- Doing even more per tick
- Flynn's categories
- Multicore processors and shared memory
- SIMD, GPUs and clusters
- Amdahl's law
- Worked example: eight cores
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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