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IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
MPIJAVA: An Object-Oriented JAVA Interface to MPI
Abstract. A basic prerequisite for parallel programming is a good communication API. The recent interest in using Java for scienti c and engineering application has led to several ...
Mark Baker, Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey Fox, Sung Ho...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Cascaded Execution: Speeding Up Unparallelized Execution on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
Both inherently sequential code and limitations of analysis techniques prevent full parallelization of many applications by parallelizing compilers. Amdahl's Law tells us tha...
Ruth E. Anderson, Thu D. Nguyen, John Zahorjan
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Reusable Internal Hardware Templates
This paper describes the framework of internal hardware templates. These reusable templates can be instantiated, inside the FPGA, to the required precision. Thus, the resource util...
Ka-an Agun, J. Morris Chang
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Hiding Communication Latency in Reconfigurable Message-Passing Environments
Communication overhead is one of the most important factors affecting the performance of message passing multicomputers. We present evidence (through the analysis of several paral...
Ahmad Afsahi, Nikitas J. Dimopoulos
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Parallel Biological Sequence Comparison Using Prefix Computations
We present practical parallel algorithms using prefix computations for various problems that arise in pairwise comparison of biological sequences. We consider both constant and af...
Srinivas Aluru, Natsuhiko Futamura, Kishan Mehrotr...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
The Impact of Memory Hierarchies on Cluster Computing
Using off-the-shelf commodity workstations and PCs to build a cluster for parallel computing has become a common practice. A choice of a cost-effective cluster computing platform ...
Xing Du, Xiaodong Zhang
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
A Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Task Mapping on Parallel Machines
In parallel processing systems, a fundamental consideration is the maximization of system performance through task mapping. A good allocation strategy may improve resource utilizat...
S. Mounir Alaoui, Ophir Frieder, Tarek A. El-Ghaza...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
High-Performance Knowledge Extraction from Data on PC-Based Networks of Workstations
The automatic construction of classi ers programs able to correctly classify data collected from the real world is one of the major problems in pattern recognition and in a wide ar...
Cosimo Anglano, Attilio Giordana, Giuseppe Lo Bell...
IEEEPACT
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Memory System Support for Image Processing
Image processing applications tend to access their data non-sequentially and reuse that data infrequently. As a result, they tend to perform poorly on conventional memory systems ...
Lixin Zhang, John B. Carter, Wilson C. Hsieh, Sall...