Pipeline And Vector Processing

Parallel Processing

Execution of Concurrent Events in the computing process to

achieve faster Computational Speed

The purpose of parallel processing is to speed up the computer

processing capability and increase its throughput, that is, the
amount of processing that can be accomplished during a given
interval of time.

The amount of hardware increases with parallel processing,

and with it, the cost of the system increases.

However, technological developments have reduced hardware

costs to the point where parallel processing techniques are
economically feasible.
Parallel processing according to levels of complexity

At the lower level

Serial Shift register VS
parallel load registers

At the higher level

Multiplicity of functional
units that performer
identical or different
operations simultaneously.
Parallel Computers
SISD COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Von Neumann Architecture
MISD COMPUTER SYSTEMS
SIMD COMPUTER SYSTEMS
MIMD COMPUTER SYSTEMS
PIPELINING

A technique of decomposing a sequential process into

suboperations, with each subprocess being executed in a
partial dedicated segment that operates concurrently
with all other segments.

A pipeline can be visualized as a collection of processing

segments through which binary information flows.

The name “pipeline” implies a flow of information analogous

to an industrial assembly line.
Example of the Pipeline Organization
OPERATIONS IN EACH PIPELINE STAGE
GENERAL PIPELINE
Cont.
Speedup ratio of pipeline
Cont.
PIPELINE AND MULTIPLE FUNCTION UNITS
Cont.
ARITHMETIC PIPELINE
 Cont.

See the example in P. 310

INSTRUCTION CYCLE
INSTRUCTION PIPELINE
INSTRUCTION EXECUTION IN A 4-STAGE PIPELINE
Pipeline
Space time diagram
MAJOR HAZARDS IN PIPELINED EXECUTION

Structural hazards (Resource Conflicts):

Hardware resources required by the instructions

simultaneous overlapped execution cannot be met.

Data hazards (Data Dependency Conflicts):

An instruction scheduled to be executed in the

pipeline requires the result of a previous instruction,
which is not yet available.

Control hazards (Branch difficulties):

Branches and other instructions that change the PC

make the fetch of the next instruction to be delayed.
Data hazards

Control hazards
 STRUCTURAL HAZARDS

Occur when some resource has not been duplicated enough

to allow all combinations of instructions in the pipeline to
execute.

Example:
With one memory-port, a data and an instruction fetch cannot
be initiated in the same clock.

The Pipeline is stalled for a structural hazard

<- Two Loads with one port memory
-> Two-port memory will serve without stall
DATA HAZARDS
FORWARDING HARDWARE
INSTRUCTION SCHEDULING
CONTROL HAZARDS
CONTROL HAZARDS
CONTROL HAZARDS
 VECTOR PROCESSING

There is a class of computational problems that are

beyond the capabilities of conventional computer.
These problems are characterized by the fact that
they require a vast number of computations that will
take a conventional computer days or even weeks to
complete.
VECTOR PROCESSING
VECTOR PROGRAMMING
VECTOR INSTRUCTIONS
Matrix Multiplication

The multiplication of two nxn matrices consists of n2 inner

products or n3 multiply-add operations.

Example: Product of two 3x3 matrices

c11= a11b11+a12b21+a13b31

This requires 3 multiplications and 3 additions. The total

number of multiply-add required to compute the matrix
product is 9x3=27.

In general, the inner product consists of the sum of k product

terms of the form

C = A1B1+A2B2+A3B3+…+Ak Bk
C = A1B1+A5B5+A9B9+A13 B13+…

+A2B2+A6B6+A10B10+A14 B14+…

+A3B3+A7B7+A11B11+A15 B15+…

+A4B4+A8B8+A12B12+A16 B16+…
VECTOR INSTRUCTION FORMAT
MULTIPLE MEMORY MODULE AND INTERLEAVING
MULTIPLE MEMORY MODULE AND INTERLEAVING
MULTIPLE MEMORY MODULE AND INTERLEAVING
ARRAY PROCESSOR
attached array processor with host computer
SIMD array processor Organization
 Don’t forget,
try to solve the
questions of the
chapter