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ICDCS
1990
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Implementing Fault-Tolerant Distributed Applications
This paper develops some control structures suitable for composing fault-tolerant distrib uted applications using atomic actions (atomic transactions) as building blocks, and then...
Santosh K. Shrivastava, Stuart M. Wheater
ICDCS
1990
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Constructive Approach to the Design of Distributed Systems
The underlying model of distributed systems is that of loosely coupled components r running in parallel and communicating by message passing. Description, construction and evoluti...
Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Anthony Finkelstein
ICDCS
1990
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Basic Unit of Computation in Distributed Systems
Mohan Ahuja, Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Timothy Carlson
ICS
1989
Tsinghua U.
13 years 11 months ago
Very high-speed communication in large MIMD supercomputers
Wolfgang K. Giloi, Wolfgang Schröder-Preiksch...
ICS
1989
Tsinghua U.
13 years 11 months ago
Control flow optimization for supercomputer scalar processing
Control intensive scalar programs pose a very different challenge to highly pipelined supercomputers than vectorizable numeric applications. Function call/return and branch instru...
Pohua P. Chang, Wen-mei W. Hwu
ICS
1989
Tsinghua U.
13 years 11 months ago
Convergence rate and termination of asynchronous iterative algorithms
We consider iterative algorithms of the form z := f(z), executed by a parallel or distributed computing system. We focus on asynchronous implementations whereby each processor ite...
Dimitri P. Bertsekas, John N. Tsitsiklis
ICPP
1989
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Exploring "Multiple Worlds" in Parallel
We examine computing alternative solutions to a problem in parallel to improve response time. Problems with exploring multiple alternatives in parallel include (1) side-effects an...
Jonathan M. Smith, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr.
ICPP
1989
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Hypercube Algorithms for Image Transformations
Efficient hypercube algorithms are developed for the following image transformations: shrinking, expanding, translation, rotation, and scaling. A 2k −step shrinking and expandi...
Sanjay Ranka, Sartaj Sahni
ICPP
1989
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient Serial and Parallel Algorithms for Median Filtering
We develop a serial algorithm for separable median filtering that requires only two comparisons per element when the window size is three. In addition, fast parallel CREW PRAM al...
Sanjay Ranka, Sartaj Sahni