Future high-end computers will offer great performance improvements over today’s machines, enabling applications of far greater complexity. However, designers must solve the cha...
Guang R. Gao, Kevin B. Theobald, Ziang Hu, Haiping...
Only a handful of fundamental mechanisms for synchronizing the access of concurrent threads to shared memory are widely implemented and used. These include locks, condition variab...
Software developers commonly exploit multicore processors by building multithreaded software in which all threads of an application share a single address space. This shared addre...
Austin T. Clements, M. Frans Kaashoek, Nickolai Ze...
In a multi-programmed computing environment, threads of execution exhibit different runtime characteristics and hardware resource requirements. Not only do the behaviors of distin...
As wireless platforms converge to multimedia systems, architectures must converge to support voice, data, and video applications. From a processor architecture perspective, suppor...
C. John Glossner, Mayan Moudgill, Daniel Iancu, Ga...