COMIC: A coherent shared memory interface for cell BE

Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques - Conference Proceedings, PACT

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 303-314

  Lee, Jaejin ^a   Seo, Sangmin ^a   Kim, Chihun ^a   Kim, Junghyun ^a   Chun, Posung ^a   Sura, Zehra ^b   Kim, Jungwon ^a   Han, SangYong ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell BE; Heterogeneous Multicores; OpenMP; Software Distributed Shared Memory; Software Shared Virtual Memory

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK APPLICATIONS; DMA TRANSFERS; HETEROGENEOUS MULTICORES; MAIN MEMORIES; MEMORY CONSISTENCY MODELS; MEMORY MANAGEMENTS; MULTI CORES; OPENMP; POWERPC PROCESSOR ELEMENTS; PROGRAMMING MODELS; RUN-TIME SYSTEMS; RUNTIME FUNCTIONS; SHARED DATUM; SHARED MEMORIES; SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY; SOFTWARE SHARED VIRTUAL MEMORY; SYNERGISTIC PROCESSOR ELEMENTS; WRITE OPERATIONS;

BENCHMARKING; DECODING; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SOLAR RADIATION;

RETAIL STORES;

EID: 63549088652     PISSN: 1089795X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1454115.1454157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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