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ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Scalable Architecture for Crowd Simulation: Implementing a Parallel Action Server
Crowd simulation can be considered as a special case of Virtual Environments where avatars are intelligent agents instead of user-driven entities. These applications require both ...
Guillermo Vigueras, Miguel Lozano, Carlos Perez, J...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On the Design of Fast Pseudo-Random Number Generators for the Cell Broadband Engine and an Application to Risk Analysis
Numerical simulations in computational physics, biology, and finance, often require the use of high quality and efficient parallel random number generators. We design and optimi...
David A. Bader, Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, Virat ...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Taming Single-Thread Program Performance on Many Distributed On-Chip L2 Caches
This paper presents a two-part study on managing distributed NUCA (Non-Uniform Cache Architecture) L2 caches in a future manycore processor to obtain high singlethread program per...
Lei Jin, Sangyeun Cho
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Solving Large, Irregular Graph Problems Using Adaptive Work-Stealing
Solving large, irregular graph problems efficiently is challenging. Current software systems and commodity multiprocessors do not support fine-grained, irregular parallelism wel...
Guojing Cong, Sreedhar B. Kodali, Sriram Krishnamo...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Enabling Streaming Remoting on Embedded Dual-Core Processors
Dual-core processors (and, to an extent, multicore processors) have been adopted in recent years to provide platforms that satisfy the performance requirements of popular multimed...
Kun-Yuan Hsieh, Yen-Chih Liu, Po-Wen Wu, Shou-Wei ...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Thread-Sensitive Modulo Scheduling for Multicore Processors
This paper describes a generalisation of modulo scheduling to parallelise loops for SpMT processors that exploits simultaneously both instruction-level parallelism and thread-leve...
Lin Gao 0002, Quan Hoang Nguyen, Lian Li 0002, Jin...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Scalable Techniques for Transparent Privatization in Software Transactional Memory
—We address the recently recognized privatization problem in software transactional memory (STM) runtimes, and introduce the notion of partially visible reads (PVRs) to heuristic...
Virendra J. Marathe, Michael F. Spear, Michael L. ...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Overcoming Scalability Challenges for Tool Daemon Launching
: Many tools that target parallel and distributed environments must co-locate a set of daemons with the distributed processes of the target application. However, efficient and por...
Dong H. Ahn, Dorian C. Arnold, Bronis R. de Supins...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Bounded LSH for Similarity Search in Peer-to-Peer File Systems
Similarity search has been widely studied in peer-to-peer environments. In this paper, we propose the Bounded Locality Sensitive Hashing (Bounded LSH) method for similarity search...
Yu Hua, Bin Xiao, Dan Feng, Bo Yu