Clusters of workstations are a popular alternative to integrated parallel systems designed and built by a vendor. Besides their huge cumulative processing power, they also provide...
Modern scientific collaborations have opened up the opportunity of solving complex problems that involve multidisciplinary expertise and large-scale computational experiments. The...
Chee Sun Liew, Malcolm P. Atkinson, Jano I. van He...
Chip multiprocessors (CMPs) are now commonplace, and the number of cores on a CMP is likely to grow steadily. However, in order to harness the additional compute resources of a CM...
Sanjeev Kumar, Christopher J. Hughes, Anthony D. N...
Multimedia vector instruction sets are becoming ubiquitous in most of the embedded systems used for multimedia, networking and communications. However, current compiler technology...
Abstract--The now commonplace multi-core chips have introduced, by design, a deep hierarchy of memory and cache banks within parallel computers as a tradeoff between the user frien...