Trends indicate a rapid increase in the number of cores on chip, exhibiting various types of
performance and functional asymmetries present in hardware to gain scalability with …

With the increasing trend of microprocessor manufacturers to rely on parallelism to increase
their products' performance, there is an associated increasing need for simple techniques to …

With core counts as well as heterogeneity on the rise, the sequential components of
applications are becoming the major bottleneck in performance scaling as predicted by …

Heterogeneous multi-cores—platforms comprised of both general purpose and accelerator
cores—are becoming increasingly common. Contemporary processor designs have also …

This dissertation presents research into the development of high performance dataflow
middleware and applications on heterogeneous, distributed-memory supercomputers. We …