Growing transistor counts, limited power budgets, and the breakdown of voltage scaling are currently conspiring to create a utilization wall that limits the fraction of a chip tha...
Ganesh Venkatesh, Jack Sampson, Nathan Goulding, S...
With the right techniques, multicore architectures may be able to continue the exponential performance trend that elevated the performance of applications of all types for decades...
Arun Raman, Hanjun Kim, Thomas R. Mason, Thomas B....
SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) engines are an essential part of the processors in various computing markets, from servers to the embedded domain. Although SIMD-enabled a...
Amir Hormati, Yoonseo Choi, Mark Woh, Manjunath Ku...
Scalable heterogeneous computing systems, which are composed of a mix of compute devices, such as commodity multicore processors, graphics processors, reconfigurable processors, ...
Anthony Danalis, Gabriel Marin, Collin McCurdy, Je...
In this paper we evaluate the atomic region compiler abstraction by incorporating it into a commercial system. We find that atomic regions are simple and intuitive to integrate i...
Naveen Neelakantam, David R. Ditzel, Craig B. Zill...