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ICS
1998
Tsinghua U.
13 years 12 months ago
Data Prefetching for Software DSMs
In this paper we propose and evaluate the Adaptive++ technique, a novel runtime-only data prefetching strategy for software-based distributed shared-memory systems (software DSMs)...
Ricardo Bianchini, Raquel Pinto, Claudio Luis de A...
ICS
1998
Tsinghua U.
13 years 12 months ago
High-level Management of Communication Schedules in HPF-like Languages
The goal of High Performance Fortran (HPF) is to "address the problems of writing data parallel programs where the distribution of data affects performance", providing t...
Siegfried Benkner, Piyush Mehrotra, John Van Rosen...
ICS
1998
Tsinghua U.
13 years 12 months ago
OPTNET: A Cost-effective Optical Network for Multiprocessors
In this paper we propose the OPTNET, a novel optical network and associated coherence protocol for scalable multiprocessors. The network divides its channels into broadcast and po...
Enrique V. Carrera, Ricardo Bianchini
ICS
1998
Tsinghua U.
13 years 12 months ago
Multipath Execution: Opportunities and Limits
Even sophisticated branch-prediction techniques necessarily suffer some mispredictions, and even relatively small mispredict rates hurt performance substantially in current-genera...
Pritpal S. Ahuja, Kevin Skadron, Margaret Martonos...
EUROPAR
1998
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
A Lower Bound for Dynamic Scheduling of Data Parallel Programs
Instruction Balanced Time Slicing IBTS allows multiple parallel jobs to be scheduled in a manner akin to the well-known gang scheduling scheme in parallel computers. IBTS however a...
Fabrício Alves Barbosa da Silva, Luis Migue...
EUROPAR
1998
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Exploiting Atomic Broadcast in Replicated Databases
Database replication protocols have historically been built on top of distributed database systems, and have consequently been designed and implemented using distributed transacti...
Fernando Pedone, Rachid Guerraoui, André Sc...
EUROPAR
1998
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Performance Measurement of Interpreted Programs
Abstract. In an interpreted execution there is an interdependence between the interpreter's execution and the interpreted application's execution; the implementation of t...
Tia Newhall, Barton P. Miller
EUROPAR
1998
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Net-dbx: A Java Powered Tool for Interactive Debugging of MPI Programs Across the Internet
This paper describes Net-dbx, a tool that utilizes Java and other WWW tools for the debugging of MPI programs from anywhere in the Internet. Net-dbx is a source level interactive d...
Neophytos Neophytou, Paraskevas Evripidou
EUROPAR
1998
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Industrial Stochastic Simulations on a European Meta-Computer
Abstract. This paper outlines the experiences of running a large stochastic multi-bodysimulation across a pan-European meta-computer,to demonstrate the use of the PROMENVIR tool wi...
Ken Meacham, Nick Floros, Mike Surridge