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IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Early experience with out-of-core applications on the Cray XMT
This paper describes our early experiences with a preproduction Cray XMT system that implements a scalable shared memory architecture with hardware support for multithreading. Unl...
Daniel G. Chavarría-Miranda, Andrès ...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Providing security to the Desktop Data Grid
Volunteer Computing is becoming a new paradigm not only for the Computational Grid, but also for institutions using production-level Data Grids because of the enormous storage pot...
Jesus Luna, Michail Flouris, Manolis Marazakis, An...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Assuring information quality in e-Science
In this paper we outline a framework for assuring information quality (IQ) in an e-Science context, using semiotics theory, semantic explanation of resources, and data couplings. ...
Ying Su, Zhanming Jin, Jie Peng
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Achieving and assuring high availability
We discuss availability aspects of large softwarebased systems. We classify faults into Bohrbugs, Mandelbugs and aging-related bugs, then examine mitigation methods for the last t...
Kishor S. Trivedi, Gianfranco Ciardo, Balakrishnan...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Self-optimizing distributed trees
We present a novel protocol for restructuring a treebased overlay network in response to the workload of the application running over it. Through low-cost restructuring operations...
Michael K. Reiter, Asad Samar, Chenxi Wang
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Qthreads: An API for programming with millions of lightweight threads
Large scale hardware-supported multithreading, an attractive means of increasing computational power, benefits significantly from low per-thread costs. Hardware support for ligh...
Kyle B. Wheeler, Richard C. Murphy, Douglas Thain
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A modeling approach for estimating execution time of long-running scientific applications
In a Grid computing environment, resources are shared among a large number of applications. Brokers and schedulers find matching resources and schedule the execution of the applic...
Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, Shu Shimizu, Javier Figueroa...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Improving software reliability and productivity via mining program source code
A software system interacts with third-party libraries through various APIs. Insufficient documentation and constant refactorings of third-party libraries make API library reuse ...
Tao Xie, Mithun Acharya, Suresh Thummalapenta, Kun...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
NETEMBED: A network resource mapping service for distributed applications
Emerging configurable infrastructures (large-scale overlays, grids, distributed testbeds, and sensor networks among others) comprise diverse sets of computing resources and netwo...
Jorge Londoño, Azer Bestavros
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Lattice Boltzmann simulation optimization on leading multicore platforms
We present an auto-tuning approach to optimize application performance on emerging multicore architectures. The methodology extends the idea of searchbased performance optimizatio...
Samuel Williams, Jonathan Carter, Leonid Oliker, J...