Characterization of Multithreaded Application Workload an Intel Processor

This paper describes how to speed up a commonly used application by taking advantage of multithreading on Hyper-Threading Technology base Intel® Pentium® 4 processors. The techniques shown here can be applied to any application where parallelization is targeted. The performance gains will, of course, vary with the applications as well as system configuration. Multithreading is suitable for all applications where optimization is the subject for program performance. This paper shows a few simple applications for the threaded scenario. We will also present performance numbers for comparing the application with and without threading concept. All performance data presented was collected on a 3.2 GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 processor with Hyper- Threading Technology.