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This 7 page paper considers the operation, advantages and disadvantages of Intel's hyper-threading technology by examining the software and hardware that had been developed with this technology in mind. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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that is too demanding will result in slow and possibility unstable sysytems when users seek to take advantage of advantaged features. Slower system, even where there are no single culprits
acting as a drain on resources may also become slow with the way that processing take place. It was as a result of this that multi-threading was developed. This was
a technology to allow concurrent processing to take place. Hyper-threading is an extension of this technology taking threading to the next logical stage.
Hyper-threading technology has a great deal of potential when looking to increase the efficiency of both software and hardware in a cost effective way. Hyper-threading with the use of
hardware and software working together. The first aspect is the hardware. Hyper-threading is achieved by the processor having circuitry added to it
to make it appear as if it were two processors, fooling the software, although there is only one physical processor (Fogarty, 2004, Intel, 2004). This is achieved by "duplicating the
architectural state on each processor" (Intel, 2004). This means where there is software designed for hyper-threading technology the operating system will interpret
the processor as two processors, one is the physical process with is present, the other is the logical processor that is not really present in any physical sense (Intel, 2004).
This is now seen on both desktop technology as well as ore recently being introduced to notebook technology (The Mobile Internet, 2003).
To understand the technology it helps to understand the goals of its development, which is described by Louis Burns the Intel Desktop Platforms Group vice president and general manager, who
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