The Bulk Multicore architecture for improved programmability

Authors:
Josep Torrellas;Luis Ceze;James Tuck;Calin Cascaval;Pablo Montesinos;Wonsun Ahn;Milos Prvulovic
Affiliations:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;University of Washington, Seattle, WA;North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;Samsung Information Systems America, San Jose, CA;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Venue:
Communications of the ACM - Finding the Fun in Computer Science Education
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Easing the programmer's burden does not compromise system performance or increase the complexity of hardware implementation.