Using Kernel Coupling to Improve the Performance of Multithreaded Applications

16th ISCA International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems 2003, PDCS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 361-368

  Geisler, Jonathan ^a   Taylor, Valerie ^b   Wu, Xingfu ^b   Stevens, Rick ^c  

^a TAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE-STUDIES; CONTROL-FLOW; COUPLING PARAMETERS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; KERNEL COUPLING; MULTI- THREADED APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE; RADIX SORT; REUSE; SCALINGS;

EID: 84875460200     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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