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ITCC
2000
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Parallel Real-Time Numerical Computation: Beyond Speedup III
Parallel computers can do more than simply speed up sequential computations. They are capable of nding solutions that are far better in quality than those obtained by sequential c...
Selim G. Akl, Stefan D. Bruda
CONCUR
1992
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The Duality of TIme and Information
The states of a computing system bear information and change time, while its events bear time and change information. We develop a primitive algebraic model of this duality of tim...
Vaughan R. Pratt
IFIPTCS
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Concurrent Pattern Calculus
Abstract. Concurrent pattern calculus drives interaction between processes by comparing data structures, just as sequential pattern calculus drives computation. By generalising fro...
Thomas Given-Wilson, Daniele Gorla, Barry Jay
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Dryad: distributed data-parallel programs from sequential building blocks
Dryad is a general-purpose distributed execution engine for coarse-grain data-parallel applications. A Dryad application combines computational “vertices” with communication ...
Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrel...
OOPSLA
1992
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Concurrency Annotations
JAC is a Java extension for high-level concurrent programming, meant to hide the notions of threads and synchronization statements from the programmer. Putting into practice the c...
Klaus-Peter Löhr