John Cavazos

Multicore Optimization

THE MULTICORE OPTIMIZATION PROJECT

The industry is now in agreement that the future of architecture design lies in multiple cores. As a consequence, all computer systems today, from embedded devices to petascale computing systems, are being developed using multicore processors. Although researchers in industry and academia are exploring many different multicore hardware design choices, most agree that developing portable software that achieves high performance on multicore processors is a major unsolved problem. We now see a plethora of architectural features, with little consensus on how the computation, memory, and communication structures in multicore systems will be organized. The wide disparity in hardware systems available has made it nearly impossible to write code that is portable in functionality while still taking advantage of the performance potential of each system. In this project, we propose exploring the viability of developing programming models, optimizations, and other key components that will allow application portability while still achieving high performance on current and future multicore architectures.

Course: Software Support for Multicore Architectures Class Website

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