A portable runtime interface for multi-level memory hierarchies

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 143-152

  Houston, Mike ^a   Park, Ji Young ^a   Ren, Manman ^a   Knight, Timothy ^a   Fatahalian, Kayvon ^a   Aiken, Alex ^a   Dally, William J ^a   Hanrahan, Pat ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory hierarchies; Parallelism; Runtime; Sequoia

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MULTICORE PROGRAMMING; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY CLUSTERS; MEMORY HIERARCHY; MULTI-LEVEL MEMORY HIERARCHY; PARALLELISM; RUNTIMES; SEQUOIA; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 56849108794     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1345206.1345229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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