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IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
COWL: Copy-On-Write for Logic Programs
In order for parallel logic programming systems to become popular, they should serve the broadest range of applications. To achieve this goal, designers of parallel logic programm...
Vítor Santos Costa
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Linear Aggressive Prefetching: A Way to Increase the Performance of Cooperative Caches
Cooperative caches offer huge amounts of caching memory that is not always used as well as it could be. We might find blocks in the cache that have not been requested for many hou...
Toni Cortes, Jesús Labarta
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Low Cost Databases for NOW
Gianni Conte, Michele Mazzeo, Agostino Poggi, Piet...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
High Performance Computing for the Masses
Abstract. Recent advances in software and hardware for clustered computing have allowed scientists and computing specialists to take advantage of commodity processors in solving ch...
Mark J. Clement, Quinn Snell, Glenn Judd
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An Adaptive, Distributed Airborne Tracking System ("process the Right Tracks at the Right Time")
This paper describes a United States Air Force Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) that applied value-based scheduling to produce an adaptive, distributed tracking component ap...
Raymond K. Clark, E. Douglas Jensen, Arkady Kanevs...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The Computational Co-op: Gathering Clusters into a Metacomputer
We explore the creation of a metacomputer by the aggregation of independent sites. Joining a metacomputer is voluntary, and hence it has to be an endeavor that mutually benefits a...
Walfredo Cirne, Keith Marzullo
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Formal Framework for Specifying and Verifying Time Warp Optimizations
Parallel and distributed systems are representative of large and complex systems that require the application of formal methods. These systems are often unreliable because implemen...
Victoria Chernyakhovsky, Peter Frey, Radharamanan ...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Parallel Phoneme Recognition Algorithm Based on Continuous Hidden Markov Model
This paper presents a parallel phoneme recognition algorithm based on the continuous Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The parallel phoneme recognition algorithm distributes 3-state HMMs...
Sang-Hwa Chung, Min-Uk Park, Hyung-Soon Kim
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
ParaPART: Parallel Mesh Partitioning Tool for Distributed Systems
In this paper, we present ParaPART, a parallel version of a mesh partitioning tool, called PART, for distributed systems. PART takes into consideration the heterogeneities in proce...
Jian Chen, Valerie E. Taylor
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Building an Adaptive Multimedia System using the Utility Model
We present our experience of building a prototype system based on the Utility Model for adaptive multimedia. The Utility Model is proposed to capture the issues and dynamics in mul...
Lei Chen, Shahadat Khan, Kin F. Li, Eric G. Mannin...