Tapping into the fountain of CPUs: On operating system support for programmable devices

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 179-188

  Weinsberg, Yaron ^a,d   Dolev, Danny ^a   Anker, Tal ^a,e   Ben Yehuda, Muli ^b   Wyckoff, Pete ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

^c OHIO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER   (United States)

^d MICROSOFT   (United States)

^e Radlan Marvell ^*

Author keywords

Offloading; Operating systems; Programming model

Indexed keywords

DISK CONTROLLER; HETEROGENOUS COMPUTE RESOURCES; PROGRAMMING MODEL;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL DEVICES; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; GRAPHIC METHODS;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 77957770511     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1346281.1346304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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