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Hyper-Threading (or HT, for short) is a technology used in some Intel CPUs. Intel claims that it can use processor resources more efficiently. Many past studies have evaluated the performance of the technology in HPC clusters. In this paper, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Hyper-Threading using in the cloud computing systems. We evaluate the performance and energy cost of Intel CPU with Hyper-Threading enabled and disabled on virtualization environment. Our results show that Hyper-Threading technology can get better performance in most cases on a physical machine. The performance of a single core in a virtual machine is slightly lower when HT is enabled. But it doubles the number of available cores.
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This work was supported by the National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program) under Grant No.2013AA01A215, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61472323, No.61303037. This work was also supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No.3102015JSJ0009.
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Zhang, X., Li, A., Zhang, B., Liu, W., Zhao, X., Li, Z. (2016). The Cost Performance of Hyper-Threading Technology in the Cloud Computing Systems. In: Tan, Y., Shi, Y., Li, L. (eds) Advances in Swarm Intelligence. ICSI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9713. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41009-8_63
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