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PPOPP
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Analyzing lock contention in multithreaded applications
Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Allan P...
ICDCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
ISP Friend or Foe? Making P2P Live Streaming ISP-Aware
Abstract: Current peer-to-peer systems are network-agnostic, often generating large volumes of unnecessary inter-ISP traffic. Although recent work has shown the benefits of ISP-a...
Fabio Picconi, Laurent Massoulié
HPCC
2009
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Dynamically Filtering Thread-Local Variables in Lazy-Lazy Hardware Transactional Memory
Abstract--Transactional Memory (TM) is an emerging technology which promises to make parallel programming easier. However, to be efficient, underlying TM system should protect only...
Sutirtha Sanyal, Sourav Roy, Adrián Cristal...
CLUSTER
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Minimizing the Network Overhead of Checkpointing in Cycle-harvesting Cluster Environments
Cycle-harvesting systems such as Condor have been developed to make desktop machines in a local area (which are often similar to clusters in hardware configuration) available as ...
Daniel Nurmi, John Brevik, Richard Wolski
ICS
2005
Tsinghua U.
14 years 2 months ago
Disk layout optimization for reducing energy consumption
Excessive power consumption is becoming a major barrier to extracting the maximum performance from high-performance parallel systems. Therefore, techniques oriented towards reduci...
Seung Woo Son, Guangyu Chen, Mahmut T. Kandemir