A study of the EARTH-MANNA multithreaded system

International Journal of Parallel Programming

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 319-348

  Hum, Herbert H J ^a   Maquelin, Olivier ^a   Theobald, Kevin B ^a   Tian, Xinmin ^a   Gao, Guang R ^a   Hendren, Laurie J ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

EARTH; Multiprocessors; Multithreaded architectures; Parallel processing; Performance measurements

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCHEDULING; SYNCHRONIZATION;

COMMUNICATION LATENCY; EARTH MANNA SYSTEM; EXECUTION UNIT; MULTITHREADED SYSTEM; SYNCHRONIZATION UNIT;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030216001     PISSN: 08857458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03356753     Document Type: Article

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