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...
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...
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...
—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...
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...