Scalable Parallel Programming Applied to H.264/AVC Decoding

• Main Authors: Juurlink, Ben (Author), Alvarez-Mesa, Mauricio (Author), Chi, Chi Ching (Author), Azevedo, Arnaldo (Author), Meenderinck, Cor (Author), Ramirez, Alex (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer programming.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Programming Techniques.

Existing software applications should be redesigned if programmers want to benefit from the performance offered by multi- and many-core architectures. Performance scalability now depends on the possibility of finding and exploiting enough Thread-Level Parallelism (TLP) in applications for using the...