HYPER-THREADING TECHNOLOGY

ABSTRACT
Hyper-Threading Technology brings the concept of simultaneous multi-threading to the Intel Architecture. Hyper-Threading Technology makes a single physical processor appear as two logical processors. The physical execution resources are shared and the architecture state is duplicated for the two logical processors. From a software or architecture perspective, this means operating systems and user programs can schedule processes or threads to logical processors as they would on multiple physical processors. From a micro architecture perspective, this means that instructions from both logical processors will persist and execute simultaneously on shared execution resources. This seminar presents the Hyper-Threading Technology architecture.

Intel Pentium 4 processor that incorporates Hyper-Threading Technology. Hyperthreading works by duplicating certain sections of the processor those that store the architectural statuebut not duplicating the main execution resources. This allows a hyper-threading processor to appear as two "logical" Hyper threading technology Hyper-threading (officially Hyper-Threading Technology, and abbreviated HT Technology, HTT or HT) is Intel's term for its simultaneous multithreading implementation in their Xeon, Pentium 4, Atom, Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs. Hyper-threading is an Intel-proprietary technology used to improve parallelization of computations (doing multiple tasks at once) performed on PC microprocessors. For each processor core that is physically present, the operating system addresses two virtual processors, and shares the workload between them when possible. Hyper-threading requires only that the operating system support multiple processors and Intel recommends disabling HTT when using operating systems that have not been optimized for the technology.