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GPU621/History of Parallel Computing

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Transition from Single to Multi-Core
* synchronization issues with coherency of data.
Some instructionA common metric of measurement in the number of instructions a processor can execute simultaneously for a given program is called Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP). In the case of single-level parallelism methods core processors, some ILP techniques were used to improve single-core performance such as superscalar pipelining which , speculative execution, and out-of-order execution. The superscalar ILP technique enables the processor to execute multiple instruction pipelines concurrently within a single clock cycle, but they it along with the two other techniques were not suited suitable for many applicationsas the number of instructions that can be run simultaneously for a specific program may vary. Such issues with instruction-level parallelism were predominantly dictated by the disparity between the speed by which the processor operated and the access latency of system memory, which costed the processor many cycles by having to stall and wait for the fetch operation from system memory to complete.
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