Parallelism via multithreaded and multicore CPUs

Computer

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 24-32

  Sodan, Angela C ^a   Machina, Jacob ^a   Deshmeh, Arash ^a   Macnaughton, Kevin ^a   Esbaugh, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Application level parallelism; Chip interconnects; GPUs; Heterogeneous cores; Multicore processors; Multithreaded cores; Power efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949761762     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2010.75     Document Type: Article

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