Itanium is the first generation product processor based on IA-64 architecture. ORC(Open Research Compil-er )provides an open source IPF(Itanium Processor Family)research compiler infrastructure. We have compiled andrun NAS Benchmarks on the Itanium machine. This paper briefly describes the performance of orcc, sgicc and gcc inthe following 3 ways: execution time, compilation time, and executable file size. The results show that orcc has near-ly the same performance as sgicc, which is 2 fold faster over gcc in the aspect of execution time. We also find that evenwith the best-optimized program, the utilization ratio of process resources is no more that 70%.
Multithreading has been proposed as an efficient computing model for improving parallelism. It combinesadvantages of both dataflow architecture and von Neumann architecture,leading to high performance and efficiency.The-state-of-the-art multithreaded computing model includes Blocking thread and Non-blocking thread, the corre-sponded multithreaded architecting can be classified as Multiple Context Processor and Hybrid Architecture. Threadpartitioning is one of the most important compiling issues in multithreaded computing. The idea of multithreading willbe developed further on the move of architecture,compiling technique,and operating system.
