Abstract--The now commonplace multi-core chips have introduced, by design, a deep hierarchy of memory and cache banks within parallel computers as a tradeoff between the user frien...
While graphics processing units (GPUs) provide low-cost and efficient platforms for accelerating high performance computations, the tedious process of performance tuning required...
Mehrzad Samadi, Amir Hormati, Mojtaba Mehrara, Jan...
Cell Broadband EngineTM is a multi-core system on a chip and is composed of a general-purpose Power Processing Element (PPE) and eight Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). Its ...
Hyperthreaded (HT) and simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processors are now available in commodity workstations and servers. This technology is designed to increase throughput by e...
Clusters of high-end workstations and PCs are currently used in many application domains to perform large-scale computations or as scalable servers for I/O bound tasks. Although cl...