TEAPOT: A toolset for evaluating performance, power and image quality on mobile graphics systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 37-46

  Arnau, Jose Maria ^a   Parcerisa, Joan Manuel ^a   Xekalakis, Polychronis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

low power graphics; mobile gpu; simulation infrastructure

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION LEVEL; GRAPHICAL APPLICATIONS; IMAGE COMPOSITION; IMAGE QUALITY METRICS; LOW POWER; MEMORY SUBSYSTEMS; MOBILE GPU; SIMULATION INFRASTRUCTURE;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); IMAGE QUALITY; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84879822173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2464996.2464999     Document Type: Conference Paper

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