Virtualization essentially enables multiple operating systems and applications to run on one physical computer by multiplexing hardware resources. A key motivation for applying vi...
Matrix multiplication is an important kernel in linear algebra algorithms, and the performance of both serial and parallel implementations is highly dependent on the memory system...
Siddhartha Chatterjee, Alvin R. Lebeck, Praveen K....
OpenMP has emerged as a widely accepted standard for writing shared memory programs. Hardware-specific extensions such as data placement are usually needed to improve the scalabi...
Modern chip-level multiprocessors (CMPs) contain multiple processor cores sharing a common last-level cache, memory interconnects, and other hardware resources. Workloads running ...
Richard West, Puneet Zaroo, Carl A. Waldspurger, X...
Aggressive prefetching is very beneficial for memory latency tolerance of many applications. However, it faces significant challenges in multi-core systems. Prefetchers of diff...