Fundamentals of Parallel Multicore Architecture

List of Abbreviations

AAT

Average Access Time, referring to a metric that represents the mean of time to access the memory hierarchy.

CCR

communication-to-computation ratio, referring to the amount of communication of a thread divided by the amount of computation of the thread. The parameters are the number of processors and the input size.

CISC

Complex Instruction Set Computer, referring to an instruction set architecture (ISA) which has relatively complex instructions that can perform several simple operations in one instruction. For example, an instruction in CISC may involve multiple addressing modes, accessing both register and memory operands, etc.

CMP

Chip Multi-Processors, referring to multiple processor cores implemented in a single ...