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IPPS
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Predictability and Resource Management in Distributed Multimedia Presentations
Abstract. The continuous media applications have an implied temporal dimension, i.e. they are presented at a particular rate for a particular length of time and if the required rat...
Costas Mourlas
IPPS
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Consensus Based on Failure Detectors with a Perpetual Accuracy Property
This paper is on the Consensus problem, in the context of asynchronous distributed systems made of n processes, at most f of them may crash. A family of failure detector classes s...
Achour Mostéfaoui, Michel Raynal
IPPS
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Information Exchange in Multi Colony Ant Algorithms
Multi colony ant algorithms are evolutionary optimization heuristics that are well suited for parallel execution. Information exchange between the colonies is an important topic th...
Martin Middendorf, Frank Reischle, Hartmut Schmeck
IPPS
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
A Quantitative Assessment of Thread-Level Speculation Techniques
Speculative thread-level parallelism has been recently proposed as an alternative source of parallelism that can boost the performance for applications where independent threads a...
Pedro Marcuello, Antonio González
IPPS
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
A Requirements Analysis for Parallel KDD Systems
Abstract. The current generation of data mining tools have limited capacity and performance, since these tools tend to be sequential. This paper explores a migration path out of th...
William Maniatty, Mohammed Javeed Zaki
IPPS
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Replicating the Contents of a WWW Multimedia Repository to Minimize Download Time
Dynamic replication algorithms aim at allocating, migrating and deleting copies of an object over various Internet hosts, according to the access patterns exhibited online, so as ...
Thanasis Loukopoulos, Ishfaq Ahmad
IPPS
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Job Scheduling that Minimizes Network Contention due to both Communication and I/O
As communication and I/O traffic increase on the interconnection network of high-performance systems, network contention becomes a critical problem drastically reducing performan...
Jens Mache, Virginia Mary Lo, Sharad Garg