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IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Performance modeling of heterogeneous systems
Predicting how well applications may run on modern systems is becoming increasingly challenging. It is no longer sufficient to look at number of floating point operations and commu...
Jan Christian Meyer, Anne C. Elster
IPMI
2003
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
A New & Robust Information Theoretic Measure and Its Application to Image Alignment
In this paper we develop a novel measure of information in a random variable based on its cumulative distribution that we dub cumulative residual entropy (CRE). This measure parall...
Fei Wang, Baba C. Vemuri, Murali Rao, Yunmei Chen
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Scalable reader-writer locks
We present three new reader-writer lock algorithms that scale under high read-only contention. Many previous reader-writer locks suffer significant degradation when many readers a...
Yossi Lev, Victor Luchangco, Marek Olszewski
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Towards transactional memory semantics for C++
Transactional memory (TM) eliminates many problems associated with lock-based synchronization. Over recent years, much progress has been made in software and hardware implementati...
Tatiana Shpeisman, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Robert ...
PODC
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Self-stabilizing byzantine agreement
Byzantine agreement algorithms typically assume implicit initial state consistency and synchronization among the correct nodes and then operate in coordinated rounds of informatio...
Ariel Daliot, Danny Dolev