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IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Relaxing Causal Constraints in PDES
One of the major overheads that prohibits the wide spread deployment of parallel discrete event simulation PDES is the need to synchronize the distributed processes in the simulat...
Narayanan V. Thondugulam, Dhananjai Madhava Rao, R...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Communication-Intensive Parallel Applications and Non-dedicated Clusters of Workstations
Time-sharing operating systems may delay application processing of incoming messages because other processes are scheduled when the messages arrive. In this paper, we present a sim...
Kritchalach Thitikamol, Peter J. Keleher
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
A Performance Model of Speculative Prefetching in Distributed Information Systems
Previous studies in speculative prefetching focus on building and evaluating access models for the purpose of access prediction. This paper investigates a complementary area which...
Nor Jaidi Tuah, Mohan Kumar, Svetha Venkatesh
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
A Factorial Performance Evaluation for Hierarchical Memory Systems
In this study, we introduce an evaluation methodology for advanced memory systems. This methodology is based on statistical factorial analysis. It is two fold: it first determines...
Xian-He Sun, Dongmei He, Kirk W. Cameron, Yong Luo
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
tmPVM - Task Migratable PVM
In this paper we introduce an implementation of PVM that exploits the homogeneity of a MPP network with userlevel task migration. The target machine is the Fujitsu AP3000. It is b...
C. P. Tan, Weng-Fai Wong, Chung-Kwong Yuen
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Parallel Ant Colonies for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Abstract. Ant Colonies AC optimization take inspiration from the behavior of real ant colonies to solve optimization problems. This paper presents a parallel model for ant colonies...
El-Ghazali Talbi, Olivier Roux, Cyril Fonlupt, Den...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Implementation and Evaluation of MPI on an SMP Cluster
Abstract. An MPI library, called MPICH-PM/CLUMP, has been implemented on a cluster of SMPs. MPICH-PM/CLUMP realizes zero copy message passing between nodes while using one copy mes...
Toshiyuki Takahashi, Francis O'Carroll, Hiroshi Te...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
A Formal Definition of the Phenomenon of Collective Intelligence and its IQ Measure
This paper formalizes the concept of Collective Intelligence (C-I). Application of the Random PROLOG Processor (RPP) has allowed us to model the phenomenon of C-I in social structu...
Tadeusz Szuba