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IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
NWCache: Optimizing Disk Accesses via an Optical Network/Write Cache Hybrid
In this paper we propose a simple extension to the I/O architecture of scalable multiprocessors that optimizes page swap-outs significantly. More specifically, we propose the use o...
Enrique V. Carrera, Ricardo Bianchini
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Dependability Evaluation of Fault Tolerant Distributed Industrial Control Systems
Modern distributed industrial control systems need improvements in their dependability. In this paper we study the dependability of a fault tolerant distributed industrial control ...
José Carlos Campelo, Pedro Yuste, Francisco...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The Characterization of Data-Accumulating Algorithms
A data-accumulating algorithm (d-algorithm for short) works on an input considered as a virtually endless stream. The computation terminates when all the currently arrived data ha...
Stefan D. Bruda, Selim G. Akl
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Visualization and Performance Prediction of Multithreaded Solaris Programs by Tracing Kernel Threads
Efficient performance tuning of parallel programs is often hard. We present a performance prediction and visualization tool called VPPB. Based on a monitored uni-processor executi...
Magnus Broberg, Lars Lundberg, Håkan Grahn
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Customizable Implementation of RMI for High Performance Computing
This paper describes an implementation of Java's Remote Method Invocation RMI that is designed to run on top of the Globus high performance computing protocol. The primary con...
Fabian Breg, Dennis Gannon
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Parallel Algorithm for Singular Value Decomposition as Applied to Failure Tolerant Manipulators
The system of equations that govern kinematically redundant manipulators is commonly solved by nding the singular value decomposition (SVD) of the corresponding Jacobian matrix. T...
Tracy D. Braun, Anthony A. Maciejewski, Howard Jay...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Implementation of a Virtual Time Synchronizer for Distributed Databases
The availability of high speed networks and improved microprocessor performance have made it possible to build inexpensive cluster of workstations as an appealing platform for par...
Azzedine Boukerche, Sajal K. Das, Ajoy Kumar Datta...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Coarse Grained Parallel Maximum Matching In Convex Bipartite Graphs
We present a coarse grained parallel algorithm for computing a maximum matching in a convex bipartite graph G = A;B;E. For p processors with N=p memory per processor, N = jAj+jBj,...
Prosenjit Bose, Albert Chan, Frank K. H. A. Dehne,...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The Paderborn University BSP (PUB) Library - Design, Implementation and Performance
The Paderborn University BSP (PUB) library is a parallel C library based on the BSP model. The basic library supports buffered and unbuffered asynchronous communication between an...
Olaf Bonorden, Ben H. H. Juurlink, Ingo von Otte, ...