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2005
IEEE
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The Impact of Performance Asymmetry in Emerging Multicore Architectures
Performance asymmetry in multicore architectures arises when individual cores have different performance. Building such multicore processors is desirable because many simple cores...
Saisanthosh Balakrishnan, Ravi Rajwar, Michael Upt...
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Impact of process variations on multicore performance symmetry
Multi-core architectures introduce a new granularity at which process variations may occur, yielding asymmetry among cores that were designed—and that software expects—to be s...
Eric Humenay, David Tarjan, Kevin Skadron