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IISWC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Characterizing and improving the performance of Intel Threading Building Blocks
Abstract— The Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) runtime library [1] is a popular C++ parallelization environment [2][3] that offers a set of methods and templates for creatin...
Gilberto Contreras, Margaret Martonosi
CGO
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Physical Experimentation with Prefetching Helper Threads on Intel's Hyper-Threaded Processors
Pre-execution techniques have received much attention as an effective way of prefetching cache blocks to tolerate the everincreasing memory latency. A number of pre-execution tech...
Dongkeun Kim, Shih-Wei Liao, Perry H. Wang, Juan d...
ISCA
2009
IEEE
318views Hardware» more  ISCA 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Thread criticality predictors for dynamic performance, power, and resource management in chip multiprocessors
With the shift towards chip multiprocessors (CMPs), exploiting and managing parallelism has become a central problem in computer systems. Many issues of parallelism management boi...
Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Margaret Martonosi
PDP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Task-Parallel versus Data-Parallel Library-Based Programming in Multicore Systems
—Multicore machines are becoming common. There are many languages, language extensions and libraries devoted to improve the programmability and performance of these machines. In ...
Diego Andrade, Basilio B. Fraguela, James C. Brodm...
IEEEPACT
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Meeting points: using thread criticality to adapt multicore hardware to parallel regions
We present a novel mechanism, called meeting point thread characterization, to dynamically detect critical threads in a parallel region. We define the critical thread the one with...
Qiong Cai, José González, Ryan Rakvi...