Abstract: An apparatus and method for executing media processing applications in a heterogeneous multicore system are provided. The media processing application executing apparatus includes a configuration deciding unit to decide a configuration for a combination of computational kernels and cores in which the computation kernels are to be executed. The computation kernels are media processing components included in a media processing application. The media processing application executing apparatus also includes an execution unit including multiple heterogeneous cores, to execute the media processing application based on the determined configuration.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for efficiently allocating jobs to processing cores included in a computing system, are provided. The multi-core system includes a plurality of cores that may collect performance information of each respective core while the cores are executing a requested task in parallel. The multi-core system allocates additional jobs of the requested task to the cores based on the performance information and the amount of jobs remaining.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing pipeline processing in a computing system having multiple cores, are provided. To pipeline process an application in parallel and in a time-sliced fashion, the application may be divided into two or more stages and executed stage by stage. A multi-core processor including multiple cores may collect correlation information between the stages and allocate additional jobs to the cores based on the collected information.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of simultaneously playing multiple channel images are provided. The apparatus for simultaneously playing multiple channel images includes a frequency changeover tuner successively selecting multiple channels, a demodulation unit demodulating data of the selected channels, a storage unit storing the demodulated data, a playback unit playing the stored data by channels, and an image-management unit managing an arrangement of displayed channel images.