Abstract: A problem with running distributed shared memory applications in heterogeneous environments is that making optimal use of available resources often requires significant changes to the ...

Funded under the European Commission's IST programme, the POP project focused on generating an environment to allow applications designed using the OpenMP Application Program Interface (API) to ...

Introduction to parallel computing for scientists and engineers. Shared memory parallel architectures and programming, distributed memory, message-passing data-parallel architectures, and programming.

Complex, computational work with huge sets of data is now common practice in fields such as genomics, economics, and astrophysics. Researchers in these and similarly data intensive fields depend on ...

Abstract: The distributed shared memory (DSM) model is designed to leverage the ease of programming of the shared memory paradigm, while enabling the high-performance by expressing locality as in the ...

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[FEBRUARY 25, 2003/ADT'S PROGRAMMERS REPORT] -Intel's massive booth on the Intel Developer Forum conference exhibition floor featured several Centrino-based notebooks. An Intel spokesperson at the ...

This is the second in the series on the essentials of multiprocessor programming. This time around we are going to look at some of the normally little considered effects of having memory being shared ...