CellSs: Making it easier to program the cell broadband engine processor

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 593-604

  Perez, Josep M ^a   Bellens, Pieter ^a   Badia, Rosa M ^a   Labarta, Jesús ^a  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

CELL BROADBAND ENGINE PROCESSOR; FUNCTIONAL PARALLELISM; MULTICORE PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE; PROGRAMMING MODEL;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 35649006026     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 00188646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.515.0593     Document Type: Review

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