Optimal task assignment in multithreaded processors: A statistical approach

International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems - ASPLOS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 235-248

  Radojković, Petar ^a   Čakarević, Vladimir ^a   Moretó, Miquel ^a,b   Verdú, Javier ^b   Pajuelo, Alex ^b   Cazorla, Francisco J ^a,c   Nemirovsky, Mario ^a   Valero, Mateo ^a,b  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

extreme value theory; multithreading; scheduling; statistical estimation; task assignment

Indexed keywords

EXTREME VALUE THEORY; HARDWARE THREADS; HIGH CONFIDENCE; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDY; MULTI-THREADING; MULTITHREADED; MULTITHREADED PROCESSORS; NETWORK APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE LOSS; SHARED RESOURCES; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION; TASK ASSIGNMENT; TASK-SCHEDULING; ULTRASPARC;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 84858789395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2150976.2151002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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