Power consumption and heat dissipation issues are pushing the microprocessors industry towards multicore design patterns. Given the cubic dependence between core frequency and power consumption, multicore technologies leverage the idea that doubling the number of cores and halving the cores frequency gives roughly the same performance reducing the power consumption by a factor of four. With the number of cores on multicore chips expected to reach tens in a few years, efficient implementations of numerical libraries using shared memory programming models is of high interest. The current message passing paradigm used in ScaLAPACK and elsewhere introduces unnecessary memory overhead and memory copy operations, which degrade performance, along with the making it harder to schedule operations that could be done in parallel. Limiting the use of shared memory to fork-join parallelism (perhaps with OpenMP) or to its use within the BLAS does not address all these issues. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
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Buttari, A., Dongarra, J., Kurzak, J., Langou, J., Luszczek, P., & Tomov, S. (2007). The impact of multicore on math software. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4699 LNCS, pp. 1–10). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75755-9_1
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