Multicore Challenges and Benefits for High Performance Scientific Computing

Until recently, performance gains in processors were achieved largely by improvements in clock speeds and instruction level parallelism. Thus, applications could obtain performance increases with relatively minor changes by upgrading to the latest generation of computing hardware. Currently, however...

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Main Authors: Ida M.B. Nielsen, Curtis L. Janssen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2008-01-01
Series:Scientific Programming
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SPR-2008-0260