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superscalar

superscalar

9.9
A processor that runs more than one command at the same time
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : procesador superscalar
  • We have implemented our techniques and evaluated them on an IBM superscalar RISC workstation with a POWER2 processor using a suite of 13 matrices.
  • superscalar processor
  • superscalar RISC
  • superscalar workstation

Examples

  • The allocation of machine resources to instructions is a critical mechanism in the scheduling of instructions for superscalar machines.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Section 6 discusses a prototype of the central component of a high-frequency out-of-order superscalar processor.

    Academic text (2000)
  • The performance results demonstrate that superscalar capabilities are an attractive alternative to aggressive clock rates.

    Academic text (1994)
  • We describe the techniques in the next section and comment, where appropriate, on their applicability to other current superscalar processors.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Many superscalar RISC processors have at least two load/store units.

    Academic text (1997)
  • However, aside from interrupts, each pipeline stage in a superscalar processor effectively has its own view of the current instruction.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The prefetching technique should improve performance on superscalar RISC processors that have more than one load/store unit.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Three main factors contribute to the poor performance of sparse-matrix vector multiplication on modern superscalar RISC processors.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The high performance of pipelined, superscalar processors such as the POWER2TM and PowerPCTM is achieved in large part through the parallel execution of instructions.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The new superscalar architecture allows the processor to execute multiple instructions at once.

How Parallel

superscalar
  • Specialized
9.9
uniprocessor
  • Specialized
7.9

Surface Forms

superscalar singular
superscalars plural

Morphology

superscalar = scalar (semi-transparent) = super + scalar

Formed by adding the productive prefix 'super-' to 'scalar', a regular and semantically coherent morphological process.

Etymology

Superscalar as a noun joins super- 'more' or 'above' with scalar 'single number', so a superscalar is a processor that runs several instructions at once and the name itself tells you it does 'more' than a single-instruction chip.