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Recently, multicore technology has been introduced to embedded systems in order to improve performance and reduce power consumption. In the present study, three SMP multicore processors for embedded systems and a multicore processor for a desktop PC are evaluated by the parallel benchmark using OpenMP. The results indicate that, even if the memory performance is low, applications that are not memory-intensive exhibit large speedups by parallelization. The results also indicate a large performance improvement due to parallelization using OpenMP, despite its low cost.
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Hanawa, T., Sato, M., Lee, J., Imada, T., Kimura, H., Boku, T. (2009). Evaluation of Multicore Processors for Embedded Systems by Parallel Benchmark Program Using OpenMP. In: Müller, M.S., de Supinski, B.R., Chapman, B.M. (eds) Evolving OpenMP in an Age of Extreme Parallelism. IWOMP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5568. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02303-3_2
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