Topic summary
Multicore
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Multi-core processor.
Early innovations: the Stanford Hydra project
In the 1990s, Kunle Olukotun led the Stanford Hydra Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) research project. This initiative was among the first to demonstrate the viability of integrating multiple processors on a single chip, a concept that laid the groundwork for today's multicore processors. The Hydra project introduced support for thread-level speculation (TLS), enabling more efficient parallel execution of programs.