Transactional Memory (TM) simplifies parallel programming by supporting atomic and isolated execution of user-identified tasks. To date, TM programming has required the use of l...
Woongki Baek, Chi Cao Minh, Martin Trautmann, Chri...
An emerging trend in processor design is the addition of short vector instructions to general-purpose and embedded ISAs. Frequently, these extensions are employed using traditiona...
Samuel Larsen, Rodric M. Rabbah, Saman P. Amarasin...
A microprocessor's performance is fundamentally limited by the rate at which it can resolve branch mispredictions. Control independence (CI) architectures look for useful con...
Kshitiz Malik, Mayank Agarwal, Sam S. Stone, Kevin...
We explore the emerging application area of physics-based simulation for computer animation and visual special effects. In particular, we examine its parallelization potential and...
Christopher J. Hughes, Radek Grzeszczuk, Eftychios...
Most parallel computing resources are controlled by batch schedulers that place requests for computation in a queue until access to compute nodes is granted. Queue waiting times a...