As single-processor systems are ceasing to scale effectively, multi-processor systems are becoming more and more popular. While there are many challenges of designing multi-process...
Wolfgang Haid, Lars Schor, Kai Huang, Iuliana Baci...
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 ...
— The Cell Broadband Engine (BE) is a heterogeneous multicore processor, combining a general-purpose POWER architecture core with eight independent single-instructionmultiple-dat...
Sadaf R. Alam, Jeremy S. Meredith, Jeffrey S. Vett...
Efficient on-chip resource management is crucial for Chip Multiprocessors (CMP) to achieve high resource utilization and enforce system-level performance objectives. Existing mul...
As we look to the future, and the prospect of a billion transistors on a chip, it seems inevitable that microprocessors will exploit having multiple parallel threads. To achieve t...