Future parallel computers must efficiently execute not only hand-coded applications but also programs written in high-level, parallel programming languages. Today's machines ...
Steven K. Reinhardt, James R. Larus, David A. Wood
Ricochet is a low-latency reliable multicast protocol designed for time-critical clustered applications. It uses IP Multicast to transmit data and recovers from packet loss in end...
Mahesh Balakrishnan, Kenneth P. Birman, Amar Phani...
Until recently, a steadily rising clock rate and other uniprocessor microarchitectural improvements could be relied upon to consistently deliver increasing performance for a wide ...
Guilherme Ottoni, Ram Rangan, Adam Stoler, David I...
The availability of inexpensive “off the shelf” machines increases the likelihood that parallel programs run on heterogeneous clusters of machines. These programs are increasi...
This paper compares several implementations of entry consistency (EC) and lazy release consistency (LRC), two relaxed memory models in use with software distributed shared memory ...
Sarita V. Adve, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Ra...