Ray tracing is a technique used for generating highly realistic computer graphics images. In this paper, we explore the design of a simple but extremely parallel, multi-threaded, ...
Josef B. Spjut, Solomon Boulos, Daniel Kopta, Erik...
The widening gap between CPU and memory speed has made caches an integral feature of modern highperformance processors. The high degree of configurability of cache memory can requ...
Rahman Hassan, Antony Harris, Nigel P. Topham, Ari...
Continuous improvements in integration scale have made major microprocessor vendors to move to designs that integrate several processor cores on the same chip. Chip-multiprocessor...
General-purpose operating systems, such as Linux, are increasingly being used in embedded systems. Computational resources are usually limited, and embedded processors often have ...
Haifeng He, John Trimble, Somu Perianayagam, Saumy...
Attacks exploiting race conditions have been considered rare and “low risk”. However, the increasing popularity of multiprocessors has changed this situation: instead of waiti...