- Multi-core chips present a new computing environment that can benefit from software support for non-numerical applications. Heterogeneous cores will allow efficient sophisticated...
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Chip multiprocessors (CMPs) are now commonplace, and the number of cores on a CMP is likely to grow steadily. However, in order to harness the additional compute resources of a CM...
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Queues are commonly used in multithreaded programs for synchronization and communication. However, because software queues tend to be too expensive to support finegrained paralle...
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