# title
Thread level parallelism of desktop applications

# topic.label
Thread level parallelism of desktop applications Research paper

# metadata.contentDescription
In this paper we examine a wide variety of existing desktop workloads (over 50) across three different operating systems (Windows NT, BeOS and Linux) and quantify the amount and nature of thread level parallelism (TLP) in the system. Our results show that OS and application structure have a significant effect on TLP