• DLP acceleration on general purpose cores 

      Duric, Milovan; Palomar Pérez, Óscar; Unsal, Osman Sabri; Cristal Kestelman, Adrián; Valero Cortés, Mateo (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2015-05-05)
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      High-performance and power-efficient multimedia computing drives the design of modern and increasingly utilized mobile devices. State-of-the-art low power processors already utilize chip multiprocessors (CMP) that add ...
    • Dynamic-vector execution on a general purpose EDGE chip multiprocessor 

      Duric, Milovan; Palomar Pérez, Óscar; Smith, Aaron; Stanic, Milan; Unsal, Osman Sabri; Cristal Kestelman, Adrián; Valero Cortés, Mateo; Burger, Doug; Veidenbaum, Alexander V (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      This paper proposes a cost-effective technique that morphs the available cores of a low power chip multiprocessor (CMP) into an accelerator for data parallel (DLP) workloads. Instead of adding a special-purpose vector ...
    • Evaluation of vectorization potential of Graph500 on Intel's Xeon Phi 

      Stanic, Milan; Palomar Pérez, Óscar; Ratkovic, Ivan; Duric, Milovan; Unsal, Osman Sabri; Cristal Kestelman, Adrián; Valero Cortés, Mateo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      Graph500 is a data intensive application for high performance computing and it is an increasingly important workload because graphs are a core part of most analytic applications. So far there is no work that examines if ...
    • EVX: vector execution on low power EDGE cores 

      Duric, Milovan; Palomar Pérez, Óscar; Smith, Aaron; Unsal, Osman Sabri; Cristal Kestelman, Adrián; Valero Cortés, Mateo; Burger, Doug (European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA), 2014)
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      In this paper, we present a vector execution model that provides the advantages of vector processors on low power, general purpose cores, with limited additional hardware. While accelerating data-level parallel (DLP) ...
    • Imposing coarse-grained reconfiguration to general purpose processors 

      Duric, Milovan; Stanic, Milan; Ratkovic, Ivan; Palomar Pérez, Óscar; Unsal, Osman Sabri; Cristal Kestelman, Adrián; Valero Cortés, Mateo; Smith, Aaron (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
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      Mobile devices execute applications with diverse compute and performance demands. This paper proposes a general purpose processor that adapts the underlying hardware to a given workload. Existing mobile processors need to ...
    • Specialization and reconfiguration of lightweight mobile processors for data-parallel applications 

      Duric, Milovan (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-01-26)
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      The worldwide utilization of mobile devices makes the segment of low power mobile processors leading in the entire computer industry. Customers demand low-cost, high-performance and energy-efficient mobile devices, which ...
    • VALib and SimpleVector: Tools for rapid initial research on vector architectures 

      Stanic, Milan; Palomar Pérez, Óscar; Ratkovic, Ivan; Duric, Milovan; Unsal, Osman Sabri; Cristal Kestelman, Adrián; Valero Cortés, Mateo (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014)
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      Vector architectures have been traditionally applied to the supercomputing domain with many successful incarnations. The energy efficiency and high performance of vector processors, as well as their applicability in other ...