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EUROPAR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Exploiting Hybrid Parallelism in Web Search Engines
Abstract. With the emergence of multi-core CPU (or Chip-level MultiProcessor -CMP-), it is essential to develop techniques that capitalize on CMP's advantages to speed up very...
Carolina Bonacic, Carlos García, Mauricio M...
EUROPAR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient Shared Memory Message Passing for Inter-VM Communications
Thanks to recent advances in virtualization technologies, it is now possible to benefit from the flexibility brought by virtual machines at little cost in terms of CPU performance....
François Diakhaté, Marc Pérac...
EUROPAR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Empirical Analysis of a Large-Scale Hierarchical Storage System
To prepare for future peta- or exa-scale computing, it is important to gain a good understanding on what impacts a hierarchical storage system would have on the performance of data...
Weikuan Yu, Sarp Oral, Shane Canon, Jeffrey S. Vet...
EUROPAR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Guest-Aware Priority-Based Virtual Machine Scheduling for Highly Consolidated Server
The use of virtualization is rapidly expanding from server consolidation to various computing systems including PC, multimedia set-top box and gaming console. However, different fr...
Dongsung Kim, Hwanju Kim, Myeongjae Jeon, Euiseong...
EUROPAR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Bi-objective Approximation Scheme for Makespan and Reliability Optimization on Uniform Parallel Machines
We study the problem of scheduling independent tasks on a set of related processors which have a probability of failure governed by an exponential law. We are interested in the bi-...
Emmanuel Jeannot, Erik Saule, Denis Trystram
EUROPAR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Flying Low: Simple Leases with Workspace Pilot
As the use of virtual machines (VMs) for scientific applications becomes more common, we encounter the need to integrate VM provisioning models into the existing resource managemen...
Timothy Freeman, Katarzyna Keahey
EUROPAR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Deque-Free Work-Optimal Parallel STL Algorithms
This paper presents provable work-optimal parallelizations of STL (Standard Template Library) algorithms based on the workstealing technique. Unlike previous approaches where a deq...
Daouda Traoré, Jean-Louis Roch, Nicolas Mai...
EUROPAR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
MPC: A Unified Parallel Runtime for Clusters of NUMA Machines
Over the last decade, Message Passing Interface (MPI) has become a very successful parallel programming environment for distributed memory architectures such as clusters. However, ...
Marc Pérache, Hervé Jourdren, Raymon...
EUROPAR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient Management of Complex Striped Files in Active Storage
Abstract. Active Storage provides an opportunity for reducing the bandwidth requirements between the storage and compute elements of current supercomputing systems, and leveraging ...
Juan Piernas, Jarek Nieplocha
EUROPAR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Dynamic Grid Scheduling Using Job Runtime Requirements and Variable Resource Availability
We describe a scheduling technique in which estimated job runtimes and estimated resource availability are used to efficiently distribute workloads across a homogeneous grid of res...
Sam Verboven, Peter Hellinckx, Jan Broeckhove, Fra...