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IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Practical Algorithms for Selection on Coarse-Grained Parallel Computers
In this paper, we consider the problem of selection on coarse-grained distributed memory parallel computers. We discuss several deterministic and randomized algorithms for paralle...
Ibraheem Al-Furaih, Srinivas Aluru, Sanjay Goil, S...
JASIS
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
Tropes, history, and ethics in professional discourse and information science
: This paper argues that professional discourses tend to align themselves with dominant ideological and social forces by means of language. In twentieth century modernity, the use ...
Ronald Day
SC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Making Sequential Consistency Practical in Titanium
The memory consistency model in parallel programming controls the order in which operations performed by one thread may be observed by another. Language designers have been reluct...
Amir Kamil, Jimmy Su, Katherine A. Yelick
ICA3PP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Practical Comparison of Cluster Operating Systems Implementing Sequential and Transactional Consistency
Shared Memory is an interesting communication paradigm for SMP machines and clusters. Weak consistency models have been proposed to improve efficiency of shared memory applications...
Stefan Frenz, Renaud Lottiaux, Michael Schött...
STOC
1997
ACM
257views Algorithms» more  STOC 1997»
13 years 11 months ago
Practical Loss-Resilient Codes
We present randomized constructions of linear-time encodable and decodable codes that can transmit over lossy channels at rates extremely close to capacity. The encoding and decod...
Michael Luby, Michael Mitzenmacher, Mohammad Amin ...