The synchronization power of coalesced memory accesses

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5218 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 320-334

  Ha, Phuong Hoai ^a   Tsigas, Philippas ^b   Anshus, Otto J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MACHINE DESIGN; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES; GRAPHICS PROCESSORS; MEMORY ACCESSES; MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES; MULTICORE PROCESSORS; NEW GENERATIONS; PROCESSING CORES; PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES; SHARED MEMORIES; SYNCHRONIZATION PRIMITIVES; TO MANY;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 56449094693     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87779-0_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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