Evaluation of the hyper-threading technology for heat conduction-type problems

Abstract

Symmetric Multi Processor (SMP) systems become popular and available for most users nowadays. The main factor that affects the performance while working with a large amount of data with the SMP system is operating memory speed. Hyper-Threading technology lets to increase the amount of threads working in parallel and to speed-up the execution of program using the same hardware. A standard heat conduction problem was chosen as a benchmark to test the SMP system performance while working with memory-intensive tasks. The results of practical tests and the quantitative estimations of efficiency are presented in the article. The experiments indicate how Hyper-Threading technology helps to use the SMP systems and dual-core processor systems more effectively while working with a large amount of data.