Performance characterization of the NAS Parallel Benchmarks in OpenCL

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, IISWC - 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 137-148

  Seo, Sangmin ^a   Jo, Gangwon ^a   Lee, Jaejin ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING DOMAIN; HETEROGENEOUS PARALLEL COMPUTING; HETEROGENEOUS PLATFORMS; MULTI CORE; NAS PARALLEL BENCHMARKS; OPEN STANDARDS; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PARALLEL PLATFORMS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING MODEL; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION; PROGRAMMING MODELS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); BENCHMARKING; CHARACTERIZATION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84862909323     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IISWC.2011.6114174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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