The Cilk++ concurrency platform

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 244-257

  Leiserson, Charles E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amdahl's Law; Dag model; Hyperobject; Multicore programming; Multithreading; Parallel programming; Parallelism; Race detection; Reducer; Span; Speedup; Work

Indexed keywords

CODE RESTRUCTURING; COMPUTING PLATFORM; DETECTION TOOLS; GLOBAL VARIABLES; HYPEROBJECT; LEGACY CODE; LOAD-BALANCE; MULTI CORE; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; MULTI-THREADING; NONLOCAL VARIABLES; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; RACE DETECTION; RUNTIME SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; STRONG DEMAND;

MULTITASKING; PROGRAM COMPILERS;

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77951240770     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: 15730484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11227-010-0405-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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