Optimistic parallelism requires abstractions

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 211-222

  Kulkarni, Milind ^a   Pingali, Keshav ^a   Walter, Bruce ^b   Ramanarayanan, Ganesh ^b   Bala, Kavita ^b   Chew, L Paul ^b  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstractions; Irregular Programs; Optimistic Parallelism

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA STRUCTURES; MESH GENERATION; PROGRAM COMPILERS;

ABSTRACTIONS; AGGLOMERATIVE CLUSTERING; ALGORITHMS AND DATA STRUCTURES; IRREGULAR PROGRAMS; OPTIMISTIC PARALLELISM; OPTIMISTIC PARALLELIZATION; POINTER-BASED DATA STRUCTURES; THREAD LEVEL SPECULATION;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 42549111870     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1273442.1250759     Document Type: Article

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