Cell GC: Using the cell synergistic processor as a garbage collection coprocessor

VEE'08 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 141-150

  Cher, Chen Yong ^a   Gschwind, Michael ^a  

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

Author keywords

Accelerator; BDW; Cell; Coprocessor; Explicitly managed memory hierarchies; Garbage collection; Local store; Mark sweep; SPE; SPU

Indexed keywords

CO-PROCESSORS; EXPLICITLY MANAGED MEMORY HIERARCHIES; GARBAGE COLLECTION; MARK-SWEEP; MEMORY HIERARCHY;

ACCELERATION; AGGREGATES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MULTIPROCESSING PROGRAMS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFUSE COLLECTION; SUPERCOMPUTERS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

REDUCED INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTING;

EID: 77952324044     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1346256.1346276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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