Question: 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

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 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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