Multicore surprises: Lessons learned from optimizing Sweep3D on the cell broadband engine

Proceedings - 21st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2007; Abstracts and CD-ROM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Petrini, Fabrizio ^a   Fossum, Gordon ^c   Fernández, Juan ^b   Varbanescu, Ana Lucia ^d   Kistler, Mike ^c   Perrone, Michael ^e  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c IBM AUSTIN RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CELL BROADBAND ENGINES; DATA STREAMING PARALLELISM; SYNERGISTIC PROCESSING ELEMENTS; VECTOR PARALLELISM;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 34548757858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370252     Document Type: Conference Paper

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