Wave propagation forward modeling is a widely used computational method in oil and gas exploration. The iterative stencil loops in such problems have broad applications in scientific computing. However, executing such loops can be highly time-consuming, which greatly limits their performance and power efficiency. In this paper, we accelerate the forward-modeling technique on the latest multi-co...

Designing efficient many-core architectures with hundreds of cores is a very challenging task due to the complexity and size of the design space. System-level simulation can help designers exploring the design space of many-core architectures. In this paper, we use SystemC to model a many-core architecture and run a parallel LU decomposition algorithm, an important linear algebra kernel that is...

The continued increase of the number of available transistors on a die has lead to the emergence of the many-core and multi-core computing architectures. These architectures promise the potential for orders of magnitude performance improvements over single core solutions through sheer concurrency. The abundance of transistors also enable the development of heterogeneous and (dynamically) reconf...

Shifting to many-core architectures is becoming compulsory for real-time applications demanding intensive computing capabilities. Nonetheless, the gain in performance of many-core architectures does not come for free. In particular, it comes at the cost of predictability and determinism issues. Logical determinism is the property of programs that for the same sequence of inputs always give the ...

Several next generation high performance computing platforms are or will be based on the so-called many-core architectures, which represent a significant departure from commodity multi-core architectures. A key issue in transitioning large-scale simulation codes from multi-core to many-core systems is closing the serial performance gap, that is, overcoming the large difference in single-core pe...