Transactional Memory (TM) provides mechanisms that promise to simplify parallel programming by eliminating the need for locks and their associated problems (deadlock, livelock, pr...
Hassan Chafi, Jared Casper, Brian D. Carlstrom, Au...
Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) combines the scalability of loosely coupled multicomputer systems with the ease of usability of tightly coupled multiprocessors, and allows transpa...
M. Rasit Eskicioglu, T. Anthony Marsland, Weiwu Hu...
Parallel programming models should attempt to satisfy two conflicting goals. On one hand, they should hide architectural details so that algorithm designers can write simple, port...
Brian Grayson, Michael Dahlin, Vijaya Ramachandran
There are two popular parallel programming paradigms available to high performance computing users such as engineering and physics professionals: message passing and distributed s...
Lorena B. C. Passos, Gerson H. Pfitscher, Tarcisio...
Computational Grids potentially offer low cost, readily available, and large-scale high-performance platforms. For the parallel execution of programs, however, computational GRIDs ...
Abdallah Al Zain, Philip W. Trinder, Greg Michaels...