关键词：高效节能；多核系统；可扩展性
摘 要：Traditional single microprocessor designs have exerted great effort to increase processor frequency and exploit instruction-level parallelism (ILP) to improve performance. However, they have arrived at a bottleneck wherein doubling the number of transistors in a serial CPU results in only a modest increase in performance with a significant increase in energy. This bottleneck has motivated us into the multicore era. With multicore, we can achieve higher throughput with acceptable power, although the core-level frequency of a multicore processor may be lower than that of a serial CPU. The switch to multicore processors implies widespread in-depth changes to software design and implementation. The popularity of multicore architectures calls for new design considerations for high-performance applications, parallel programming models, operating systems, compiler designs, and so on.