While commodity computing and graphics hardware has increased in capacity and dropped in cost, it is still quite difficult to make effective use of such systems for general-purpos...
E. Wes Bethel, Greg Humphreys, Brian E. Paul, J. D...
Numerical particle simulations and astronomical observations create huge data sets containing uncorrelated 3D points of varying size. These data sets cannot be visualized interact...
Aggressive technology scaling into the nanometer regime has led to a host of reliability challenges in the last several years. Unlike onchip caches, which can be efficiently prot...
Amin Ansari, Shuguang Feng, Shantanu Gupta, Scott ...
Microprocessors are today getting more and more inefficient for a growing range of applications. Its principles -The Von Neumann paradigm[3]- based on the sequential execution of ...
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...