Multi-core processors

Evaluating multi-core platforms for HPC data-intensive kernels

Multi-core platforms have proven themselves able to accelerate numerous HPC applications. But programming dataintensive applications on such platforms is a hard, and not yet solved, problem. Not only do modern processors favor compute-intensive code, …

Building high-resolution sky images using the Cell/B.E.

The performance potential of the Cell/B.E., as well as its availability, have attracted a lot of attention from various high-performance computing (HPC) fields. While computation intensive kernels proved to be exceptionally well suited for running on …