Heterogeneous multicores, such as Cell BE processors and GPGPUs, typically do not have caches for their accelerator cores because coherence traffic, cache misses, and latencies fr...
The advances in multicore technology and modern interconnects is rapidly accelerating the number of cores deployed in today’s commodity clusters. A majority of parallel applicat...
Amith R. Mamidala, Rahul Kumar, Debraj De, Dhabale...
Significant improvement to visual quality for real-time 3D graphics requires modeling of complex illumination effects like soft-shadows, reflections, and diffuse lighting intera...
Venkatraman Govindaraju, Peter Djeu, Karthikeyan S...
— The Cell Broadband Engine (BE) is a heterogeneous multicore processor, combining a general-purpose POWER architecture core with eight independent single-instructionmultiple-dat...
Sadaf R. Alam, Jeremy S. Meredith, Jeffrey S. Vett...
Energy-efficient computing as a research area has been receiving increasing attention in recent years due to rising energy costs and environmental awareness. In this paper, we pre...