We report the performance of NOW-Sort, a collection of sorting implementations on a Network of Workstations (NOW). We find that parallel sorting on a NOW is competitive to sortin...
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau,...
Bioinformatics researchers need efficient means to process large collections of sequence data. One application of interest, genome assembly, has great potential for parallelizati...
Christopher Moretti, Michael Olson, Scott J. Emric...
Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
Structural biology research places significant demands upon computing and informatics infrastructure. Protein production, crystallization and X-ray data collection require solutio...
Noel G. Faux, Anthony Beitz, Mark A. Bate, Abdulla...
Partitioning is a key database task. In this paper we explore partitioning performance on a chip multiprocessor (CMP) that provides a relatively high degree of on-chip thread-leve...