Browsing by Author "Pratas, F."
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Application acceleration with the cell broadband engine
Shi, G.; Kindratenko, V.; Pratas, F.; Trancoso, Pedro; Gschwind, M. (2010)The Cell Broadband Engine is a heterogeneous chip multiprocessor that combines a PowerPC processor core with eight single-instruction multiple-data accelerator cores and delivers high performance on many computationally ...
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Energy efficient stream-based configurable architecture for embedded platforms
Pratas, F.; Tomas, P.; Trancoso, Pedro; Sousa, L. (2012)Reconfigurable hardware can be used as an energy and performance efficient co-processing solution to accelerate certain types of applications. To facilitate the design of hardware accelerators we have proposed a methodology ...
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Fine-grain parallelism using multi-core, Cell/BE, and GPU systems
Pratas, F.; Trancoso, Pedro; Sousa, L.; Stamatakis, A.; Shi, G.; Kindratenko, V. (2012)Currently, we are facing a situation where applications exhibit increasing computational demands and where a large variety of parallel processor systems are available. In this paper we focus on exploiting fine-grain ...
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Fine-grain parallelism using multi-core, cell/BE, and GPU systems: Accelerating the phylogenetic likelihood function
Pratas, F.; Trancoso, Pedro; Stamatakis, A.; Sousa, L. (2009)We are currently faced with the situation where applications have increasing computational demands and there is a wide selection of parallel processor systems. In this paper we focus on exploiting fine-grain parallelism ...
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High-performance computing on heterogeneous systems: Database queries on cpu and gpu
Ilic, A.; Pratas, F.; Trancoso, Pedro; Sousa, L. (2011)Current desktop computers are heterogeneous systems that integrate different types of processors. For example, general-purpose processors and GPUs do not only have different characteristics but also adopt diverse programming ...