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IPPS
1997
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Empirical Evaluation of Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithms
In this paper, we evaluated various distributed mutual exclusion algorithms on the IBM SP2 machine and the Intel iPSC/860 system. The empirical results are compared in terms of su...
Shiwa S. Fu, Nian-Feng Tzeng, Zhiyuan Li
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
CU-Later: a communication system considering time difference
Despite the widespread use of technology for social communication across distance, a number of barriers to such contact still exist. One such barrier is the problem of communicati...
Hitomi Tsujita, Svetlana Yarosh, Gregory D. Abowd
ISLPED
2005
ACM
63views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Inter-program optimizations for conserving disk energy
Previous work has shown that intra-program optimizations, i.e., optimizations performed on individual programs in isolation, can be very effective in reducing disk energy in stre...
Jerry Hom, Ulrich Kremer
IAT
2003
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
MPIAB: A Novel Agent Architecture for Parallel Processing
This paper presents MPIAB, an agent based architecture for parallel processing. The architecture is developed to model the functions of standard MPI using java agents. It remedies...
Shahram Rahimi, Ajay Narayanan, Meha Sabharwal
CLUSTER
2011
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
Performance Characterization and Optimization of Atomic Operations on AMD GPUs
—Atomic operations are important building blocks in supporting general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPUs). For instance, they can be used to coordinate executi...
Marwa Elteir, Heshan Lin, Wu-chun Feng