Scientific Computing with Multicore and Accelerators

Download or read book Scientific Computing with Multicore and Accelerators written by Jakub Kurzak and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hybrid/heterogeneous nature of future microprocessors and large high-performance computing systems will result in a reliance on two major types of components: multicore/manycore central processing units and special purpose hardware/massively parallel accelerators. While these technologies have numerous benefits, they also pose substantial perfo