Authors | H. K. Stensland |
Title | Processing Multimedia Workloads on Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures |
Afilliation | Communication Systems |
Project(s) | Department of Holistic Systems |
Status | Published |
Publication Type | PhD Thesis |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Degree awarding institution | University of Oslo |
Degree | PhD |
Date Published | 02/2015 |
Publisher | UiO |
Abstract | Processor architectures have been evolving quickly since the introduction of the central processing unit. For a very long time, one of the important means of increasing performance was to increase the clock frequency. However, in the last decade, processor manufacturers have hit the so-called power wall, with high heat dissipation. To overcome this problem, processors were designed with reduced clock frequencies but with multiple cores and, later, heterogeneous processing elements. This shift introduced a new challenge for programmers: Legacy applications, written without parallelization in mind, gain no benefits from moving to multicore and heterogeneous architectures. Another challenge for the programmers is that heterogeneous architecture designs are very different with respect to caches, memory types, execution unit organization, and so forth and, in the worst case, a programmer must completely rewrite the application to obtain the best performance on the new architecture. Multimedia workloads, such as video encoding, are often time sensitive and interactive. These workloads differ from traditional batch processing workloads with no real-time requirements. This work investigates how to |
URL | https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/50618 |