PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2010
ACM
Loop vectorization, a key feature exploited to obtain high performance on Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) vector architectures, is significantly hindered by irregular memo...
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2010
ACM
We present a static analysis for the automatic generation of symbolic prefetches in a transactional distributed shared memory. A symbolic prefetch specifies the first object to be...
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2010
ACM
Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2010
ACM
To achieve high-performance on multicore systems, sharedmemory parallel languages must efficiently implement atomic operations. The commonly used and studied paradigms for atomici...
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2010
ACM
This paper addresses the problem of extracting coarse-grained parallelism from large sequential code. It builds on BOP, a system for software speculative parallelization. BOP lets...
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2010
ACM
We study the performance of three parallel algorithms and their hybrid variants for solving tridiagonal linear systems on a GPU: cyclic reduction (CR), parallel cyclic reduction (...
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2010
ACM
We propose a concurrent relaxed balance AVL tree algorithm that is fast, scales well, and tolerates contention. It is based on optimistic techniques adapted from software transact...
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2010
ACM
LOFAR is the first of a new generation of radio telescopes. Rather than using expensive dishes, it forms a distributed sensor network that combines the signals from many thousands...
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2010
ACM
We present a core calculus with two of X10's key constructs for parallelism, namely async and finish. Our calculus forms a convenient basis for type systems and static analys...
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2010
ACM
Most modern Chip Multiprocessors (CMP) feature shared cache on chip. For multithreaded applications, the sharing reduces communication latency among co-running threads, but also r...