Roofline: An Insightful Visual Performance Model for Multicore Architectures.

The article discusses computer architecture design related to multicore microprocessors, examining a visual performance model proposed by the authors called Roofline. Microprocessors will become more diverse, the article indicates, as no conventional wisdom has emerged concerning their design. Topic...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 65 - 77
Main Authors:	Williams, Samuel, Waterman, Andrew, Patterson, David
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Apr2009
Subjects:	Software architecture Computer architecture Microprocessors Computer science Bottlenecks (Manufacturing) Computer software development
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost