Everything about Simultaneous multithreading

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Simultaneous multithreadingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Efficient Prefetch and Issue Scheduling Approaches for Simultaneous Multithreading Applied to Superscalar RISC-V ProcessorInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Multicore TechnologyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Simultaneous multithreading: a platform for next-generation processorsCited 253 times
5. Go sideways: Multithreading (computer architecture)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Hyper-threadingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Simultaneous multithreading: a platform for next-generation processors

  S.J. Eggers, J.S. Emer, H.M. Levy · 1997 · IEEE Micro · 253 citations

• Converting thread-level parallelism to instruction-level parallelism via simultaneous multithreading

  Jack L. Lo, Joel S. Emer, Henry M. Levy · 1997 · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems · 143 citations

• Simultaneous multithreading

  Dean M. Tullsen, Susan J. Eggers, Henry M. Levy · 1995 · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 125 citations

• Transient fault detection via simultaneous multithreading

  Steven K. Reinhardt, Shubhendu S. Mukherjee · 2000 · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 94 citations

• Transient-fault recovery using simultaneous multithreading

  T. N. Vijaykumar, Irith Pomeranz, Karl Cheng · 2002 · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 27 citations

• SMT-SA: Simultaneous Multithreading in Systolic Arrays

  Gil Shomron, Tal Horowitz, Uri Weiser · 2019 · IEEE Computer Architecture Letters · 26 citations

• Tolerating memory latency through software-controlled pre-execution in simultaneous multithreading processors

  Chi-Keung Luk · 2001 · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 25 citations

• Symbiotic jobscheduling with priorities for a simultaneous multithreading processor

  Allan Snavely, Dean M. Tullsen, Geoff Voelker · 2002 · ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review · 18 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Efficient Prefetch and Issue Scheduling Approaches for Simultaneous Multithreading Applied to Superscalar RISC-V Processor

  Hananya Ribo, Shlomo Greenberg · 2025 · IEEE Access · 2 citations

• Simultaneous and Heterogenous Multithreading: Exploiting Simultaneous and Heterogeneous Parallelism in Accelerator-Rich Architectures

  Kuan-Chieh Hsu, Hung-Wei Tseng · 2024 · IEEE Micro · 1 citations

• Breaking the Complexity Barrier: Enhancing Quality of Service in Simultaneous Multithreading Processors

  Sercan Sari, Ugur Nezir, Onur Demir · 2025 · Array · 1 citations

• Using simultaneous multithreading in high-performance numerical algorithms

  Е.А. Буевич · 2024 · МОДЕЛИРОВАНИЕ, ОПТИМИЗАЦИЯ И ИНФОРМАЦИОННЫЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ · 0 citations

• Improving performance of simultaneous multithreading CPUs using autonomous control of speculative traces

  Ryan F. Ortiz, Wei-Ming Lin · 2024 · Microprocessors and Microsystems · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Multicore TechnologyMuhammad Yasir Qadri, Stephen Sangwine · 2013
• 📕Multithreading for visual effectsMartin Watt · 2014
• 📕Asynchronous AndroidSteve Liles · 2013
• 📕Multithreading in C# 5.0 CookbookEugene Agafonov · 2013
• Utleon3 Exploring Finegrain Multithreading In FpgasLuk Kohout · 2012
• Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for IOS and OS XTomohiko Furumoto · 2012

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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