Conquering the chaos in multiprocessor computers
Conquering the chaos in modern, multiprocessor computers
Hannah Hickey, U. of Washington, March 10, 2010
from the University of Washington News: He and UW associate professors of computer science and engineering Mark Oskin and Dan Grossman and UW graduate students Owen Anderson, Tom Bergan, Joseph Devietti, Brandon Lucia and Nick Hunt have developed a way to get modern, multiple-processor computers to behave in predictable ways, by automatically parceling sets of commands and assigning them to specific places. Sets of commands get calculated simultaneously, so the well-behaved program still runs faster than it would on a single processor.
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