SGI recently introduced the Altix 3700. In contrast to previous SGI systems, the Altix uses a modified version of the open source Linux operating system and the latest Intel IA-64...
Thomas H. Dunigan, Jeffrey S. Vetter, Patrick H. W...
This paper presents the study and results of running several core multimedia applications on a simultaneous multithreading (SMT) architecture, including some detailed analysis ran...
Yen-Kuang Chen, Eric Debes, Rainer Lienhart, Matth...
Parameter variations are a major factor causing powerperformance asymmetry in chip multiprocessors. In this paper, we analyze the effects of with-in-die (WID) process variations o...
Kahn Process Networks is an appealing model of computation for programming and mapping applications onto multi-processor platforms. Autonomous processes communicate through unboun...
OpenMP relies heavily on barrier synchronization to coordinate the work of threads that are performing the computations in a parallel region. A good implementation of barriers is ...
Ramachandra C. Nanjegowda, Oscar Hernandez, Barbar...