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IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Design and Implementation of a Compiler Framework for Helper Threading on Multi-core Processors
Helper threading is a technique that utilizes a second core or logical processor in a multi-threaded system to improve the performance of the main thread. A helper thread executes...
Yonghong Song, Spiros Kalogeropulos, Partha Tiruma...
ICS
2007
Tsinghua U.
13 years 10 months ago
Optimization of data prefetch helper threads with path-expression based statistical modeling
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow
MICRO
2007
IEEE
168views Hardware» more  MICRO 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Global Multi-Threaded Instruction Scheduling
Recently, the microprocessor industry has moved toward chip multiprocessor (CMP) designs as a means of utilizing the increasing transistor counts in the face of physical and micro...
Guilherme Ottoni, David I. August
ICFP
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A scheduling framework for general-purpose parallel languages
The trend in microprocessor design toward multicore and manycore processors means that future performance gains in software will largely come from harnessing parallelism. To reali...
Matthew Fluet, Mike Rainey, John H. Reppy
PPOPP
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
McRT-STM: a high performance software transactional memory system for a multi-core runtime
Applications need to become more concurrent to take advantage of the increased computational power provided by chip level multiprocessing. Programmers have traditionally managed t...
Bratin Saha, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Richard L. Hu...