Heterogeneous (or asymmetric) chip multiprocessors present unique opportunities for improving system throughput, reducing processor power, and mitigating Amdahl's law. On-chip heterogeneity allows the processor to better match execution resources to each application's needs and to address a wider spectrum of system loads-from low to high thread parallelism-with high efficiency.
Index Terms:
Multiprocessors, Multicore microprocessors, Chip multiprocessors, CMP, Power-aware computing, System architectures, Heterogeneity
Citation:
Rakesh Kumar, Dean M. Tullsen, Norman P. Jouppi, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, "Heterogeneous Chip Multiprocessors," Computer, vol. 38, no. 11, pp. 32-38, Nov. 2005, doi:10.1109/MC.2005.379