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TOOLS
2009
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
PyGirl: Generating Whole-System VMs from High-Level Prototypes Using PyPy
Abstract. Virtual machines (VMs) emulating hardware devices are generally implemented in low-level languages for performance reasons. This results in unmaintainable systems that ar...
Camillo Bruni, Toon Verwaest
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CIDR
2009
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15 years 1 months ago
From Declarative Languages to Declarative Processing in Computer Games
Recent work has shown that we can dramatically improve the performance of computer games and simulations through declarative processing: Character AI can be written in an imperati...
Ben Sowell, Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Nitin...
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Multicore parallel min-cost flow algorithm for CAD applications
Computational complexity has been the primary challenge of many VLSI CAD applications. The emerging multicore and manycore microprocessors have the potential to offer scalable perf...
Yinghai Lu, Hai Zhou, Li Shang, Xuan Zeng
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IPPS
2009
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Phaser accumulators: A new reduction construct for dynamic parallelism
A reduction is a computation in which a common operation, such as a sum, is to be performed across multiple pieces of data, each supplied by a separate task. We introduce phaser a...
Jun Shirako, David M. Peixotto, Vivek Sarkar, Will...
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IPPS
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Qthreads: An API for programming with millions of lightweight threads
Large scale hardware-supported multithreading, an attractive means of increasing computational power, benefits significantly from low per-thread costs. Hardware support for ligh...
Kyle B. Wheeler, Richard C. Murphy, Douglas Thain