Facing the Multicore-Challenge: Aspects of New Paradigms and Technologies in Parallel Computing

ISBN-13: 9783642162329 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 156 str.

Rainer Keller; David Kramer; Jan-Philipp Weiss

Opis

This survey of the impact of multicore and co-processor technologies on science as well as on large-scale interdisciplinary applications covers the state of the art in the field. It also points to a number of potentially fruitful areas for future research.

Spis treści

Invited Talks.- Analyzing Massive Social Networks Using Multicore and Multithreaded Architectures.- MareIncognito: A Perspective towards Exascale.- The Natural Parallelism.- Computer Architecture and Parallel Programming.- RapidMind: Portability across Architectures and Its Limitations.- A Majority-Based Control Scheme for Way-Adaptable Caches.- Improved Scalability by Using Hardware-Aware Thread Affinities.- Thread Creation for Self-aware Parallel Systems.- Applications on Multicore.- G-Means Improved for Cell BE Environment.- Parallel 3D Multigrid Methods on the STI Cell BE Architecture.- Applying Classic Feedback Control for Enhancing the Fault-Tolerance of Parallel Pipeline Workflows on Multi-core Systems.- Lattice-Boltzmann Simulation of the Shallow-Water Equations with Fluid-Structure Interaction on Multi- and Manycore Processors.- FPGA vs. Multi-core CPUs vs. GPUs: Hands-On Experience with a Sorting Application.- GPGPU Computing.- Considering GPGPU for HPC Centers: Is it Worth the Effort?.- Real-Time Image Segmentation on a GPU.- Parallel Volume Rendering Implementation on Graphics Cards Using CUDA.