Services like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk have opened the door for exploration of processes that outsource computation to humans. These human computation processes hold tremendous ...
Abstract. We present a detailed investigation of the scalability characteristics of the SPEC OpenMP benchmarks on large-scale shared memory multiprocessor machines. Our study is ba...
The bag-of-tasks application model, albeit simple, arises in many application domains and has received a lot of attention in the scheduling literature. Previous works propose eithe...
Modern multi-core architectures have become popular because of the limitations of deep pipelines and heating and power concerns. Some of these multi-core architectures such as the...
Large graph analysis has become increasingly important and is widely used in many applications such as web mining, social network analysis, biology, and information retrieval. The...