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ICDCS
1990
IEEE
14 years 3 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
14 years 3 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
14 years 3 months ago
A Basic Unit of Computation in Distributed Systems
Mohan Ahuja, Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Timothy Carlson
ICS
1989
Tsinghua U.
14 years 3 months ago
Very high-speed communication in large MIMD supercomputers
Wolfgang K. Giloi, Wolfgang Schröder-Preiksch...
ICS
1989
Tsinghua U.
14 years 3 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.
14 years 3 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
14 years 3 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
14 years 3 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
14 years 3 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