The introduction of multi-core processors has renewed the interest in programming models which can efficiently exploit general purpose parallelism. Data-Flow is one such model which has demonstrated significant potential ...

The massive addition of cores on a chip is adding more pressure to the accesses to main memory. In order to avoid this bottleneck, we propose the use of a simple producer-consumer model, which allows for the temporary ...

The improvements in semiconductor technologies are gradually enabling extreme-scale systems such as teradevices (i.e., chips composed by 1000 billion of transistors), most likely by 2020. Three major challenges have been ...

The number of computational units integrated in a single processor is rapidly increasing. This suggests that applica-tions will require effcient and effective ways to exploit the parallelism to achieve the performance ...