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SRDS
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Application-Level Recovery Mechanisms for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing
We identify here various kinds of failure conditions and robustness issues that arise in context-aware pervasive computing applications. Such conditions are related to failures in...
Devdatta Kulkarni, Anand Tripathi
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ICPP
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Scalable Techniques for Transparent Privatization in Software Transactional Memory
—We address the recently recognized privatization problem in software transactional memory (STM) runtimes, and introduce the notion of partially visible reads (PVRs) to heuristic...
Virendra J. Marathe, Michael F. Spear, Michael L. ...
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PODC
2005
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Toward a theory of transactional contention managers
In recent software transactional memory proposals, a contention manager module is responsible for ensuring that the system as a whole makes progress. A number of contention manage...
Rachid Guerraoui, Maurice Herlihy, Bastian Pochon
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SC
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Optimal File-Bundle Caching Algorithms for Data-Grids
The file-bundle caching problem arises frequently in scientific applications where jobs process several files concurrently. Consider a host system in a data-grid that maintains...
Ekow J. Otoo, Doron Rotem, Alexandru Romosan
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PDP
2010
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
A Parallel Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Solver for the Poisson Problem on a Multi-GPU Platform
- We present a parallel conjugate gradient solver for the Poisson problem optimized for multi-GPU platforms. Our approach includes a novel heuristic Poisson preconditioner well sui...
Marco Ament, Günter Knittel, Daniel Weiskopf,...