The Multi-Core Era - Trends and Challenges
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
2008-10-31 v1
Abstract
Since the very beginning of hardware development, computer processors were invented with ever-increasing clock frequencies and sophisticated in-build optimization strategies. Due to physical limitations, this 'free lunch' of speedup has come to an end. The following article gives a summary and bibliography for recent trends and challenges in CMP architectures. It discusses how 40 years of parallel computing research need to be considered in the upcoming multi-core era. We argue that future research must be driven from two sides - a better expression of hardware structures, and a domain-specific understanding of software parallelism.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.5439,
title = {The Multi-Core Era - Trends and Challenges},
author = {Peter Tröger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.5439},
year = {2008}
}