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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789156703321

Titolo

Multicore computing : algorithms, architectures, and applications / / edited by Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Lance Fiondella, Mohamed Ahmed, Reda A. Ammar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, [Florida] : , : CRC Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-429-11085-5

1-4398-5435-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (451 p.)

Collana

Chapman & Hall/CRC computer & information science series ; ; 29

Classificazione

COM000000MAT001000COM051010

Disciplina

004.16

Soggetti

Multiprocessors

Computers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Dedication; Content; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributing Editors; List of Contributing Authors; Chapter 1 - Memory Hierarchy for Multicore and Many-Core Processors; Chapter 2 - FSB: A Flexible Set-Balancing Strategy for Last-Level Caches; Chapter 3 - The SPARC Processor Architecture; Chapter 4 - The Cilk and Cilk++ Programming Languages; Chapter 5 - Multithreading in the PLASMA Library; Chapter 6 - Ecient Aho-Corasick String Matching on Emerging Multicore Architectures; Chapter 7 - Sorting on a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

Chapter 8 - Scheduling DAG-Structured ComputationsChapter 9 - Evaluating Multicore Processors and Accelerators for Dense Numerical Computations; Chapter 10 - Sorting on the Cell Broadband Engine; Chapter 11 - GPU Matrix Multiplication; Chapter 12 - Backprojection Algorithms for Multicore and GPU Architectures; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

A landmark in the field, this handbook addresses the challenges that arise with the adoption of new processors into all types of computing devices and machines, from cell phones to super computers. The book focuses on the foundations of multi and many-core microprocessor computing as well as recent advances in the areas of architecture,



algorithms, programming, optimization, and applications. Applications covered within the book include data mining, scientific applications, information retrieval, and bioinformatics--