Architectural Optimizations in Multi-Core Processors
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 performance. 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 programming models may introduce ...