Online thread assignment for heterogeneous multicore systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 538-544

  Lugini, Luca ^a   Petrucci, Vinicius ^b   Mossé, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

heterogeneous multi cores; performance; thread scheduling

Indexed keywords

CLOCK SPEED; COMPUTING DEVICES; DYNAMIC FREQUENCY SCALING; ENERGY CRISIS; HETEROGENEOUS CORES; HETEROGENEOUS MULTICORE; LINUX SCHEDULERS; LOW POWER; MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS; MULTI-CORES; PERFORMANCE; RUNTIMES; SPECIALIZED HARDWARE; THREAD SCHEDULING;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; ENERGY POLICY; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; SCHEDULING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84871164629     PISSN: 15302016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPPW.2012.73     Document Type: Conference Paper

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