Serial code acceleration with single-isa asymmetric multi-core processor
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Authors
Raman, Srikumar
Issue Date
2015-12
Type
Electronic thesis
Thesis
Thesis
Language
ENG
Keywords
Electrical engineering
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Abstract
In the current era, the computing industry has become firmly entrenched in the multi-core approach. Aided by Moore's law and technology scaling, the number of cores on state-of-the art multi-cores has been steadily increasing. While this has aided parallel computing efforts to a large extent, very little has been done to improve serial code performance in the last decade. This research explores the use of a high clock rate core, to accelerate serial sections of the workload, in conjunction with a set of slower cores that operate in parallel that continue to take advantage of the parallelizability of the workload.
Description
December 2015
School of Engineering
School of Engineering
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Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY