A comparison of programming models for multiprocessors with explicitly managed memory hierarchies

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 131-140

  Schneider, Scott ^a   Yeom, Jae Seung ^a   Rose, Benjamin ^a   Linford, John C ^a   Sandu, Adrian ^a   Nikolopoulos, Dimitrios S ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell BE; Explicitly managed memory hierarchies; Programming models

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SEMANTICS;

CELL-BE; EXPERT PROGRAMMERS; MEMORY HIERARCHY; MULTI-PROCESSORS; PROGRAMMABILITY; PROGRAMMING COMPLEXITY; PROGRAMMING MODELS; SHARED ADDRESS SPACES;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 70350597883     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1594835.1504197     Document Type: Article

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