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Hyper-Threading Technology

Hyper-Threading Technology for Servers

With HT Technology, multi-threaded server software applications can execute threads in parallel within each processor in a server platform. The Intel® Xeon® processor family uses HT Technology to increase compute power and throughput for today's Web-based and enterprise server applications.

What is Hyper-Threading Technology?

Hyper-Threading Technology1 is a groundbreaking innovation that significantly improves processor performance throughout the enterprise. Pioneered by Intel on the Intel® Xeon® processor family for servers, Hyper-Threading Technology has enabled greater business productivity and enhanced the customer experience.
Hyper-Threading Technology is now supported on both the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology2 for desktops and entry-level workstations, and laptops with the Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 processor supporting Hyper-Threading Technology. Hyper-Threading Technology provides a significant performance boost that is particularly suited to today's business computing climate, applications, and operating systems.

How Hyper-Threading Works

Faster clock speeds are an important way to deliver more computing power, and Intel has led the way with industry-leading processor frequency. But clock speed is only half the story. The other route to higher performance is to accomplish more work on each clock cycle, and that's where Hyper-Threading Technology comes in. A single processor supporting Hyper-Threading Technology presents itself to modern operating systems and applications as two virtual processors. The processor can work on two sets of tasks simultaneously, use resources that otherwise would sit idle, and get more work done in the same amount of time.

In desktop and laptop PCs and entry-level workstations, HT Technology takes advantage of the multithreading capability that's built in to Windows* XP and many advanced applications. Multithreaded software divides its workloads into processes and threads that can be independently scheduled and dispatched. In a multiprocessor system, those threads execute on different processors. HT Technology allows a single Pentium 4 processor to function as two virtual or logical processors. There's still just one physical Pentium 4 processor in your PC — but the processor can execute two threads simultaneously.

In servers and high-performance workstations, Hyper-Threading Technology enables thread-level parallelism (TLP) by duplicating the architectural state on each processor while sharing one set of processor execution resources. When scheduling threads, the operating system treats the two distinct architectural states as separate "logical" processors, which allows multiprocessor capable software to run unmodified on twice as many logical processors. Although Hyper-Threading Technology will not provide the level of performance scaling achieved by adding a second processor, benchmark tests show some server applications can experience a 30 percent gain in performance. While this technology can boost applications running on Microsoft Windows* 2000 Advanced Server, it will perform best with operating systems that have been optimized for Hyper-Threading Technology, including Microsoft .NET* Server, Windows XP*, and certain versions of Linux*.

Benefits of Hyper-Threading Technology

Business users of Hyper-Threading enabled desktop and laptop PCs will see an immediate performance impact and increased system responsiveness in today's multitasking environments — up to 25 percent. IT organizations benefit because system performance is maintained while other tasks run transparently in the background. Tasks such as virus checking, e-mail encryption, and file compression run more efficiently, making the overall infrastructure more robust, manageable, and secure. End users enjoy increased system responsiveness because foreground applications execute in less time during multitasking scenarios. In addition, when HT Technology is utilized with Gigabit Ethernet in multitasking workloads, faster networking and data throughput can be experienced, providing greater performance. In servers and high-end workstations, performance analyses show solid improvements in server applications that run on processors with Hyper-Threading Technology.

Bottom Line

The workloads placed on today's desktops, workstations, and servers will only continue to increase. To keep up, processors require a more efficient way of handling increased demands. Hyper-Threading Technology on Intel® architecture is designed to do just that — increase performance and responsiveness and enable higher levels of productivity.

Hyper Threading

If you are wondering what HyperThreading is actually all about, the simple answer is that it creates two ‘virtual’ CPUs out of one.

If we think about a multi-processor machine, it will have two physical CPU's that can handle multiple tasks or multiple threads of a single application, spreading the load between the two processors. Many of the benefits from multi-processing can be squeezed into one CPU though.

A processor has a fixed number of instructions it can execute per pipeline, and under ideal circumstances it would always be calculating something in each and every part of the pipeline, every clock cycle. The reality is very far from that ideal case, though, and much of the available processing time goes unused because the processor is often waiting for other things, such as an unforeseen branch in the program requiring the CPU to fetch different instructions. If there was a way of utilising the wasted processing time on something else then, in theory, more could be done on a single CPU in the same space of time - this is what HyperThreading attempts to achieve.

The first of the two diagrams above shows the difference between normal CPUs and those that are HyperThreading enabled. Normally a CPU will have an Architectural State engine that controls what it being executed on the pipeline - with a multiprocessor system each CPU has its own Architectural State engine which means that each one can be working on different applications, or different thread of the same application. With a HyperThreaded CPU there are two Architectural State engines controlling what is being executed on the CPU, by which the state of two applications or threads are controlled. The theory is that the two tasks are controlled effectively enough so that the 'gaps' in processing that normally occur in a single threaded CPU are 'filled' with processes from the other thread with as little contention between the two as possible.

The above image shows that despite there actually only being one physical CPU the Windows XP OS (SP1) recognises it as being two separate processors. The Windows NT Kernel has been multiprocessor aware from its Workstation and Server background and is capable of some task and thread allocation. Despite there actually only being a single physical CPU present it still needs to be detected as two such that it will be 'aware' that it is able to treat this as a multi-processor machine and therefore share tasks between the Architectural State engines.

HyperThreading is not actually new, since this has been in server CPUs for a while, but this is the first time that its been brought to the desktop space -- possibly partly because it wasn't until Windows XP that the mass desktop/consumer OS was multi-processor aware. However, this can operate in multi-processor environments as well, such that if you are utilising two HyperThreaded CPUs you'll have two physical CPUs, but the system will recognise four virtual CPUs.