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MICRO
2010
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
Efficient Selection of Vector Instructions Using Dynamic Programming
Accelerating program performance via SIMD vector units is very common in modern processors, as evidenced by the use of SSE, MMX, VSE, and VSX SIMD instructions in multimedia, scien...
Rajkishore Barik, Jisheng Zhao, Vivek Sarkar
IEEECIT
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
XMalloc: A Scalable Lock-free Dynamic Memory Allocator for Many-core Machines
There are two avenues for many-core machines to gain higher performance: increasing the number of processors, and increasing the number of vector units in one SIMD processor. A tru...
Xiaohuang Huang, Christopher I. Rodrigues, Stephen...
FPL
2006
Springer
211views Hardware» more  FPL 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
Comparing FPGAs to Graphics Accelerators and the Playstation 2 Using a Unified Source Description
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and Sony's PlayStation 2 vector units offer scope for hardware acceleration of applications. We compa...
Lee W. Howes, Paul Price, Oskar Mencer, Olav Beckm...
FCCM
2006
IEEE
120views VLSI» more  FCCM 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
FPGAs, GPUs and the PS2 - A Single Programming Methodology
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and Sony’s Playstation 2 vector units offer scope for hardware acceleration of applications. Implementin...
Lee W. Howes, Paul Price, Oskar Mencer, Olav Beckm...