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IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Seekable sockets: a mechanism to reduce copy overheads in TCP-based messaging
This paper extends the traditional socket interface to TCP/IP communication with the ability to seek rather than simply receive data in order. Seeking on a TCP socket allows a use...
Chase Douglas, Vijay S. Pai
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Coordinated checkpoint from message payload in pessimistic sender-based message logging
Execution of MPI applications on Clusters and Grid deployments suffers from node and network failure that motivates the use of fault tolerant MPI implementations. Two category tec...
M. Aminian, Mohammad K. Akbari, Bahman Javadi
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
On-the-fly kernel updates for high-performance computing clusters
High-performance computing clusters running longlived tasks currently cannot have kernel software updates applied to them without causing system downtime. These clusters miss oppo...
Kristis Makris, Kyung Dong Ryu
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A compiler-based communication analysis approach for multiprocessor systems
In this paper we describe a compiler framework which can identify communication patterns for MPIbased parallel applications. This has the potential of providing significant perfo...
Shuyi Shao, Alex K. Jones, Rami G. Melhem
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Node-disjoint paths in hierarchical hypercube networks
The hierarchical hypercube network is suitable for massively parallel systems. An appealing property of this network is the low number of connections per processor, which can faci...
Ruei-Yu Wu, J. G. Chang, Gen-Huey Chen
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
An automated development framework for a RISC processor with reconfigurable instruction set extensions
By coupling a reconfigurable hardware to a standard processor, high levels of flexibility and adaptability are achieved. However, this approach requires modifications to the compi...
Nikolaos Vassiliadis, George Theodoridis, Spiridon...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Modeling user perceived unavailability due to long response times
In this paper, we introduce a simple analytical modeling approach for computing service unavailability due to long response time, for infinite and finite single-server systems a...
Magnos Martinello, Mohamed Kaâniche, Karama ...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Wire-speed total order
— Many distributed systems may be limited in their performance by the number of transactions they are able to support per unit of time. In order to achieve fault tolerance and to...
Tal Anker, Danny Dolev, G. Greenman, I. Shnaiderma...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A code motion technique for accelerating general-purpose computation on the GPU
Recently, graphics processing units (GPUs) are providing increasingly higher performance with programmable internal processors, namely vertex processors (VPs) and fragment process...
T. Ikeda, Fumihiko Ino, Kenichi Hagihara
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Distributed Monte Carlo simulation of light transportation in tissue
A distributed Monte Carlo simulation which models the propagation of light through tissue has been developed. It will allow for improved calibration of medical imaging devices for...
Andrew J. Page, S. Coyle, Thomas M. Keane, Thomas ...