MPEG-4 which is currently being developed by MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group), is poised to become a standard for supporting current and emerging interactive multimedia applic...
A common statistical problem is that of nding the median element in a set of data. This paper presents a fastand portable parallel algorithm for nding the median given a set of el...
We consider the problem of processing a given number of tasks on a given number of processors as quickly as possible when only vague information about the processing time of a task...
This paper describes a novel approach to generate an optimized schedule to run threads on distributed shared memory (DSM) systems. The approach relies upon a binary instrumentatio...
Existing DHT-based file systems use consistent hashing to assign file blocks to random machines. As a result, a user task accessing an entire file or multiple files needs to r...
Jeffrey Pang, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kaminsky...