A baseline microprocessor is enhanced as follows. (1) The core is replicated 16 times to form a 16-way CMP. (2) A floating-point co-processor is added to each core. This co-processor speeds up all...


A baseline microprocessor is enhanced as follows.


(1) The core is replicated 16 times to form a 16-way CMP.


(2) A floating-point co-processor is added to each core. This co-processor speeds up all floating-point operations in each core by a factor of 4 and is attached to the core. While the floating-point co-processor is active, the host core is idle and the presence of the co-processor does not affect instructions that are not part of floating-point operations. We observe the following on the new machine.


(1) The floating-point co-processor is used during 30% of the execution time of each core.


(2) Only one core is active 25% of the time, and the four cores are active 75% of the time. What is the speedup of the new machine compared with that of the base machine?





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