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IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Multiprocessor Scheduling Using Mean-Field Annealing
This paper presents our work on the static task scheduling model using the mean-field annealing (MFA) technique. Mean-field annealing is a technique of thermostatic annealing that...
Shaharuddin Salleh, Albert Y. Zomaya
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Distributed Dynamic Control of Circuit-Switched Banyan Networks
Circuit-switched Banyan interconnection networks can be built from simple switching elements that do not have logical processing or buffering capabilities. This paper describes a ...
Charles A. Salisbury, Rami G. Melhem
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
A Hardware/Software Co-Design System Using Configurable Computing Technology
Virtual Computer Corporation has combined the latest reconfigurable component technology with a number of advanced software tools in one easy to use `system approach' to digi...
John Schwel
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Performance Prediction in Production Environments
Accurate performance predictions are difficult to achieve for parallel applications executing on production distributed systems. Conventional point-valued performance parameters a...
Jennifer M. Schopf, Francine Berman
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Eliminating the Protocol Stack for Socket Based Communication in Shared Memory Interconnects
We show how the traditional protocol stack, such as TCP/IP, can be eliminated for socket based high speed communication within a cluster. The SCI shared memory interconnect is used...
Stein Jørgen Ryan, Haakon Bryhni
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
A Mathematical Benefit Analysis of Context Switching Reconfigurable Computing
Dynamicreconfigurationoffieldprogrammablegatearrays(FPGAs)hasrecentlyemergedasthenextstepinreconfigurable computing. Sanders,ALockheedMartinCompany,isdevelopingtheenablingtechnolo...
Stephen M. Scalera, John J. Murray, Steve Lease
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Synchronizing Operations on Multiple Objects
Parallel programming on distributed memory systems is one of the most challenging research areas in parallel computingtoday. Objectbased parallel programming languages are an impor...
Tim Rühl, Henri E. Bal
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Predicting the Running Times of Parallel Programs by Simulation
Predicting the running time of a parallel program is useful for determining the optimal values for the parameters of the implementation and the optimal mapping of data on processo...
Radu Rugina, Klaus E. Schauser
IPPS
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Jacobi Orderings for Multi-Port Hypercubes
1 The communication cost plays a key role in the performance of many parallel algorithms. In the particular case of the one-sided Jacobi method for symmetric eigenvalue and eigenve...
Dolors Royo, Antonio González, Miguel Valer...