Overview
The quest for greater computational power is never-ending. Recently, the architectural trend has shifted from improving single-threaded application performance to improving multi-threaded application per-formance. Thus, multi-core processors have been increasingly popular. To achieve concurrent execution of threads on multi-core processors, applications must be explicitly restructured to exploit parallelism, either by programmers or compilers. However, conventional parallel pro-gramming models may introduce overhead due to synchronization and communications among threads in multi-threaded applications. This book presents three architectural optimizations to improve thread-based synchronization and communications support in multi-core processors. Register-Based Synchronization (RBS) uses hardware registers efficiently to provide synchronization support in multi-core processors. Prepushing is a software controlled data forwarding technique to provide communications support in multi-core processors. Software Controlled Eviction (SCE) improves shared cache communications by placing shared data in shared caches.
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- ISBN-13: 9783639101577
- ISBN-10: 363910157X
- Publisher: VDM Verlag
- Publish Date: November 2008
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.31 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.44 pounds
- Page Count: 144
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