Optical microcavities confine light to small volumes by resonant recirculation. Devices based
on optical microcavities are already indispensable for a wide range of applications and …

If-conversion is a fundamental technique for vectorization. It accounts for the fact that in a
SIMD program, several targets of a branch might be executed because of divergence …

A broad class of applications involve indirect or datadependent memory accesses and are
referred to as irregular applications. Recent developments in SIMD architectures …

Energy efficiency below a specific thermal design power (TDP) has become the main design
goal for microprocessors across all market segments. Optimizing the usage of the available …

Dynamic parallelism on GPUs simplifies the programming of many classes of applications
that generate paral-lelizable work not known prior to execution. However, modern GPUs …

Pairwise sequence alignment algorithms, eg, Smith-Waterman and Needleman-Wunsch,
with adjustable gap penalty systems are widely used in bioinformatics. The strong data …

Task parallel models supporting dynamic and hierarchical parallelism are believed to offer a
promising direction to achieving higher performance and programmability. Divide-and …

Irregular applications that involve indirect memory accesses were traditionally considered
unsuitable for SIMD processing. Though some progress has been made in recent years, the …

GPUs have a natural affinity for streaming applications exhibiting consistent, predictable
dataflow. However, many high-impact irregular streaming applications, including sequence …

Modern hardware contains parallel execution resources that are well-suited for data-
parallelism-vector units-and task parallelism-multicores. However, most work on parallel …