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Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 36, Issue , 2014, Pages 322-334

  Rajovic, Nikola ^a,b   Rico, Alejandro ^a,b   Puzovic, Nikola ^a   Adeniyi Jones, Chris ^c   Ramirez, Alex ^a,b  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c ARM LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortex A15; Cortex A9; Embedded processors; Energy efficiency; High performance computing; Low power; Mobile processors

Indexed keywords

ARM PROCESSORS; CLUSTER COMPUTING; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

CORTEX-A15; CORTEX-A9; EMBEDDED PROCESSORS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LOW POWER; MOBILE PROCESSORS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84899651411     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2013.07.013     Document Type: Article

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