To what extent do the SPEC CPU benchmarks correct faults in the Whetstone, Dhrystone, and Linpack benchmarks?

Give some reasons for why it's not feasible to keep adding more and more cores to a CPU in order to boost its performance and keep up with the growth of Moore's Law.

Discuss the challenges of handling exceptions and interrupts in pipelined processors.

What problems do the SPEC CPU benchmarks solve that the Whetstone, Dhrystone, and Linpack benchmarks don't?

A benchmark program to evaluate the performance of a processor spends 80% of its time on floating-point commands and 20% on non-floating point commands. A design team wants to obtain an overall speedup of 40% over the existing run time of this benchmark program by speeding up ONLY the non-floating point commands. What should be the ratio of the non-floating point commands new runtime to that of its old runtime? Select the best answer. This is a trick question! In this scenario, it is impossible to speed up only the non-floating point commands to obtain an overall 40% speedup! 2 0.5 2.5

In order to stay up with Moore's Law and improve performance, adding more cores to a CPU would be necessary.

What is the process by which the Whetstone, Dhrystone, and Linpack tests' weaknesses are fixed by the SPEC CPU tests?

What is the process by which the Whetstone, Dhrystone, and Linpack tests' weaknesses are fixed by the SPEC CPU tests?

How does speculative execution work in modern pipelined processors? What are the security implications?

What is the common name for AMD's Hyper-Transport CPU feature?