Near-Data-Processing (NDP) architectures present a promising way to alleviate data
movement costs and can provide significant performance and energy benefits to parallel …

Synchronization is of paramount importance to exploit thread-level parallelism on many-core
CMPs. In these architectures, synchronization mechanisms usually rely on shared variables …

Traditional software-based barrier implementations for shared memory parallel machines
tend to produce hotspots in terms of memory and network contention as the number of …

While numerous hardware synchronization mechanisms have been proposed, they either
no longer function or suffer great performance loss when their hardware resources are …

Irregular applications comprise an increasingly important workload domain for many fields,
including bioinformatics, chemistry, physics, social sciences and machine learning …

Synchronization primitives like barriers heavily impact the performance of parallel programs.
As core counts increase and granularity decreases, the value of enabling fast barriers …

Symmetric Shared-memory multiprocessor~(SMP) is the most widely used implementation
of high-performance multi-core processors. It offers a uniform shared memory view that …

Inter-processor communication and synchronization are critical problems in embedded
multiprocessors. In order to achieve high-speed communication and low-latency …

With increasing core counts in modern multi-core designs, the overhead of synchronization
jeopardizes the scalability and efficiency of parallel applications. To mitigate these …

Barrier synchronization is a key programming primitive for shared memory embedded
MPSoCs. As the core count increases, software implementations cannot provide the needed …