— Programming to exploit the resources in a multicore system remains a major obstacle for both computer and software engineers. Transactional memory offers an attractive alternat...
While Moore’s Law predicts the ability of semi-conductor industry to engineer smaller and more efficient transistors and circuits, there are serious issues not contemplated in t...
Javier Carretero, Pedro Chaparro, Xavier Vera, Jau...
In this paper, we show how the proposed model in ITU-T Recommendation G.1070 “Opinion model for video-telephony applications” cannot model properly the perceptual video qualit...
The Sony-Toshiba-IBM Cell Broadband Engine is a heterogeneous multicore architecture that consists of a traditional microprocessor (PPE) with eight SIMD coprocessing units (SPEs) ...
—Accelerators are special purpose processors designed to speed up compute-intensive sections of applications. Two extreme endpoints in the spectrum of possible accelerators are F...
Shuai Che, Jie Li, Jeremy W. Sheaffer, Kevin Skadr...