PPOPP
2016
ACM
8 years 8 months ago
2016
ACM
For modern x86 based CPUs with increasingly longer vector lengths, achieving good vectorization has become very important for gaining higher performance. Using very explicit SIMD ...
PPOPP
2016
ACM
8 years 8 months ago
2016
ACM
In Computed Tomography (CT) methods, Model Based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR) produces higher quality images than commonly used Filtered Backprojection (FBP) but at a very high...
PPOPP
2016
ACM
8 years 8 months ago
2016
ACM
Declarative programming has been hailed as a promising approach to parallel programming since it makes it easier to reason about programs while hiding the implementation details o...
PPOPP
2016
ACM
8 years 8 months ago
2016
ACM
To achieve good multi-core performance, modern microprocessors have weak memory models, rather than enforce sequential consistency. This gives the programmer a wide scope for choo...
PPOPP
2016
ACM
8 years 8 months ago
2016
ACM
The MCS lock is one of the most prevalent queuing locks. It provides fair scheduling and high performance on massively parallel systems. However, the MCS lock mandates a bring-you...
PPOPP
2016
ACM
8 years 8 months ago
2016
ACM
PPOPP
2016
ACM
8 years 8 months ago
2016
ACM
Precise dynamic race detectors report an error if and only if more than one thread concurrently exhibits conflict on a memory access. They insert instrumentations at compiletime ...
PPOPP
2016
ACM
8 years 8 months ago
2016
ACM
High memory contention is generally agreed to be a worst-case scenario for concurrent data structures. There has been a significant amount of research effort spent investigating ...
PPOPP
2016
ACM
8 years 8 months ago
2016
ACM
We introduce OPTIK, a new practical design pattern for designing and implementing fast and scalable concurrent data structures. OPTIK relies on the commonly-used technique of vers...
PPOPP
2016
ACM
8 years 8 months ago
2016
ACM
Parallel accelerators such as GPUs are notoriously hard to program; exploiting their full performance potential is a job best left for ninja programmers. High-level programming la...