We report the performance of NOW-Sort, a collection of sorting implementations on a Network of Workstations (NOW). We find that parallel sorting on a NOW is competitive to sortin...
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau,...
Efficiently using the hardware capabilities of the Cell processor, a heterogeneous chip multiprocessor that uses several levels of parallelism to deliver high performance, and bei...
Tarik Saidani, Joel Falcou, Claude Tadonki, Lionel...
The Sony-Toshiba-IBM Cell Broadband Engine is a heterogeneous multicore architecture that consists of a traditional microprocessor (PPE) with eight SIMD coprocessing units (SPEs) ...
The Sort operation is a core part of many critical applications. Despite the large efforts to parallelize it, the fact that it suffers from high data-dependencies vastly limits it...
Layali K. Rashid, Wessam Hassanein, Moustafa A. Ha...
— The Cell Broadband Engine (BE) is a heterogeneous multicore processor, combining a general-purpose POWER architecture core with eight independent single-instructionmultiple-dat...
Sadaf R. Alam, Jeremy S. Meredith, Jeffrey S. Vett...