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COMe-mSP1 / Features and Interfaces
4.14 Hyper Threading
Hyper Threading (officially termed Hyper Threading Technology or HTT) is an Intel®-proprietary technology used to
improve parallelization of computations performed on PC´s. Hyper-Threading works by duplicating certain sections of the
processor—those that store the architectural state but not duplicating the main execution resources. This allows a Hyper-
Threading equipped processor to pretend to be two “logical” processors to the host operating system, allowing the
operating system to schedule two threads or processes simultaneously. Hyper Threading Technology support always relies
on the Operating System.
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