Cache conscious task regrouping on multicore processors

Proceedings - 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, CCGrid 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 603-611

  Xiang, Xiaoya ^a   Bao, Bin ^a   Ding, Chen ^a   Shen, Kai ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

lifetime sampling; multicore; online program locality analysis; task grouping

Indexed keywords

CACHE-CONSCIOUS; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; JOB SCHEDULER; JOB SCHEDULING; MIXED INTEGER; MULTI CORE; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; ONLINE PROGRAMS; PARALLEL EXECUTIONS; PERFORMANCE VARIATIONS; RUN TO RUN; SHARED CACHE; TASK GROUPING;

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DEGRADATION; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; GRID COMPUTING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCHEDULING; TRACE ANALYSIS;

MULTICORE PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84863700640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCGrid.2012.139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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