Heterogeneous multi-core processors, such as the IBM Cell processor, can deliver high performance. However, these processors are notoriously difficult to program: different cores...
Today, we are witnessing a new level of scale, complexity, and pervasiveness of software systems that are designed to support much more holistically complex processes. Much richer...
— This paper describes an architecture and FPGA synthesis toolchain for building specialized, energy-saving coprocessors called Irregular Code Energy Reducers (ICERs) for a wide ...
Manish Arora, Jack Sampson, Nathan Goulding-Hotta,...
To keep a Graphical User Interface (GUI) responsive and active, a GUI application often has a main UI thread (or event dispatching thread) and spawns separate threads to handle le...
Programmers seek to answer questions as they investigate the functioning of a software system, such as "which execution path is being taken in this case?" Programmers at...