Exploring performance and power properties of modern multi-core chips via simple machine models

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 189-210

  Hager, Georg ^a   Treibig, Jan ^a   Habich, Johannes ^a   Wellein, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ECM model; multi core; performance modeling; power modeling

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY; CODES (SYMBOLS); ELECTRIC LOSSES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MACHINERY;

BOTTLENECK ANALYSIS; ECM MODEL; LATTICE BOLTZMANN FLOW; MULTI CORE; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; PERFORMANCE MODEL; PERFORMANCE PROPERTIES; POWER MODEL;

MULTICORE PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84956679644     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.3180     Document Type: Article

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