This paper discusses some of the issues involved in implementing a shared-address space programming model on large-scale, distributed-memory multiprocessors. While such a programm...
David A. Kranz, Kirk L. Johnson, Anant Agarwal, Jo...
Scalability of applications on distributed sharedmemory (DSM) multiprocessors is limited by communication overheads. At some point, using more processors to increase parallelism y...
Khaled Z. Ibrahim, Gregory T. Byrd, Eric Rotenberg
Chip multiprocessors with multiple simpler cores are gaining popularity because they have the potential to drive future performance gains without exacerbating the problems of powe...
Hongtao Zhong, Steven A. Lieberman, Scott A. Mahlk...
Many computer applications are currently using digital video. Recent advances in digital imaging and faster networking infrastructure made this technology very popular, not only fo...
Joao Paulo Kitajima, Denilson Barbosa, Wagner Meir...
Most microprocessor chips today use an out-of-order instruction execution mechanism. This mechanism allows superscalar processors to extract reasonably high levels of instruction ...