The Cilkview scalability analyzer

Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 145-156

  He, Yuxiong ^a,b   Leiserson, Charles E ^a,c   Leiserson, William M ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burdened parallelism; Cilk++; Cilkview; Dag model; Multicore programming; Multithreading; Parallel programming; Parallelism; Performance; Scalability; Software tools; Span; Speedup; Work

Indexed keywords

CILKVIEW; MULTI CORE; MULTI-THREADING; PERFORMANCE SCALABILITY; SOFTWARE TOOL;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; METADATA; MULTITASKING; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; SCALABILITY;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 77954942121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1810479.1810509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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