Characterizing and Mitigating Work Time Inflation in Task Parallel Programs

Task parallelism raises the level of abstraction in shared memory parallel programming to simplify the development of complex applications. However, task parallel applications can exhibit poor performance due to thread idleness, scheduling overheads, and work time inflation – additional time spent b...

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Published in:	Scientific programming Vol. 21; no. 3-4; pp. 123 - 136
Main Authors:	Olivier, Stephen L., de Supinski, Bronis R., Schulz, Martin, Prins, Jan F.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
Subjects:	Computation Inflation Libraries NUMA Parallel programming Programming Scheduling Tasks
ISSN:	1058-9244, 1875-919X
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