Code cloning is not only assumed to inflate maintenance costs but also considered defect-
prone as inconsistent changes to code duplicates can lead to unexpected behavior …

With the increasing miniaturization of transistors, wire delays are becoming a dominant
factor in microprocessor performance. To address this issue, a number of emerging …

The demand for flexibility in media processing motivates the use of programmable
processors. Stream processing bridges the gap between inflexible special-purpose …

The Imagine Stream Processor is a single-chip programmable media processor with 48
parallel ALUs. At 400 MHz, this translates to a peak arithmetic rate of 16 GFLOPS on single …

This paper describes an experimental evaluation of theprototype Imagine stream processor.
Imagine [Imagine: Media processing with streams] is a stream processor that employs a two …

Multicore processors are about to become prevalent in the PC world. Meanwhile, over 90%
of the computing cycles are estimated to be consumed by streaming media applications …

We present a compiler for machines with an explicitly managed memory hierarchy and
suggest that a primary role of any compiler for such architectures is to manipulate and …

Media applications, such as image processing, signal processing, video, and graphics,
require high computation rates and data bandwidths. The stream programming model is a …

Stream architecture is a novel microprocessor architecture with wide application potential.
But as for whether it can be used efficiently in scientific computing, many issues await further …

Given the ubiquity of multicore processors, there is an acute need to enable the
development of scalable parallel applications without unduly burdening programmers …