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IPPS
1998
IEEE
14 years 2 min ago
The Timewheel Group Membership Protocol
Abstract. We describe a group membership protocol, called the timewheel group membership protocol, for a timed asynchronous distributed system. This protocol is a part of the timew...
Shivakant Mishra, Christof Fetzer, Flaviu Cristian
IPPS
1998
IEEE
14 years 2 min ago
Experiments with Program Parallelization Using Archetypes and Stepwise Refinement
Parallel programming continues to be difficult and error-prone, whether starting from specifications or from an existing sequential program. This paper presents (1) a methodology f...
Berna L. Massingill
IPPS
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 min ago
EDF Consensus on CAN Bus Access for Dynamic Real-Time Applications
The paper introduces a mechanism to implement distributed scheduling for CAN-bus resource in order to meet the requirements of a dynamic distributed real-time system. The key issu...
Mohammad Ali Livani, Jörg Kaiser
IPPS
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 min ago
A Performance Evaluation of CP List Scheduling Heuristics for Communication Intensive Task Graphs
List-based priority schedulers have long been one of the dominant classes of static scheduling algorithms. Such heuristics have been predominantly based around the "critical ...
Benjamin S. Macey, Albert Y. Zomaya
IPPS
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 min ago
Managing Concurrent Access for Shared Memory Active Messages
Passing messages through shared memory plays an important role on symmetric multiprocessors and on Clumps. The management of concurrent access to message queues is an important as...
Steven Lumetta, David E. Culler
IPPS
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 min ago
Compiler-Optimization of Implicit Reductions for Distributed Memory Multiprocessors
This paper presents reduction recognition and parallel code generationstrategies for distributed-memorymultiprocessors. We describe techniques to recognize a broad range of implic...
Bo Lu, John M. Mellor-Crummey
IPPS
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 min ago
A Scalable VLSI Architecture for Binary Prefix Sums
The task of computingbinary prefix sums (BPS, for short) arises, for example, in expression evaluation, data and storage compaction, and routing. This paper describes a scalable V...
Rong Lin, Koji Nakano, Stephan Olariu, Maria Crist...