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2007
Tsinghua U.
15 years 10 months ago
A study of process arrival patterns for MPI collective operations
Process arrival pattern, which denotes the timing when different processes arrive at an MPI collective operation, can have a significant impact on the performance of the operatio...
Ahmad Faraj, Pitch Patarasuk, Xin Yuan
HPCA
1996
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
A Comparison of Entry Consistency and Lazy Release Consistency Implementations
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...
BMCBI
2011
14 years 11 months ago
A lightweight, flow-based toolkit for parallel and distributed bioinformatics pipelines
Background: Bioinformatic analyses typically proceed as chains of data-processing tasks. A pipeline, or ‘workflow’, is a well-defined protocol, with a specific structure defin...
Marcin Cieslik, Cameron Mura
MOBISYS
2011
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Indoor localization without infrastructure using the acoustic background spectrum
We introduce a new technique for determining a mobile phone’s indoor location even when Wi-Fi infrastructure is unavailable or sparse. Our technique is based on a new ambient so...
Stephen P. Tarzia, Peter A. Dinda, Robert P. Dick,...
GIS
2008
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Low-cost orthographic imagery
Commercial aerial imagery websites, such as Google Maps, MapQuest, Microsoft Virtual Earth, and Yahoo! Maps, provide high- seamless orthographic imagery for many populated areas, ...
Peter Pesti, Jeremy Elson, Jon Howell, Drew Steedl...