With advances in hardware, instruction set architectures are undergoing continual evolution. As a result, compilers are under constant pressure to adapt and take full advantage of...
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...
Programming distributed-memory machines requires careful placement of datato balance the computationalload among the nodes and minimize excess data movement between the nodes. Mos...
Stampede is a parallel programming system to facilitate the programming of interactive multimedia applications on clusters of SMPs. In a Stampede application, a variable number of...
Multimedia extensions (MME) are architectural extensions to general-purpose processors to boost the performance of multimedia workloads. Today, in-line assembly code, intrinsic fu...