Balancing productivity and performance on the cell broadband engine

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 149-158

  Alam, Sadaf R ^a   Meredith, Jeremy S ^a   Vetter, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS.; ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES; CELL BROADBAND ENGINES; CELL PROCESSORS; CLUSTER COMPUTING; CODE PORTABILITY; DATA MOVEMENTS; DUAL CORE PROCESSORS; HETEROGENEOUS MULTICORE; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGING; INSTRUCTION-LEVEL PARALLELISM; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LINES OF CODE; MATRIX CREATION; PARALLELIZING; POWER ARCHITECTURES; PROBLEM DOMAINS; PRODUCTIVITY RATIO; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SIMD INSTRUCTIONS;

ATMOSPHERICS; CELLS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COVARIANCE MATRIX; CYTOLOGY; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PRODUCTIVITY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 53349175902     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2007.4629227     Document Type: Conference Paper

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