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IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Improving application performance with hardware data structures
Contemporary processors are becoming wider and more parallel. Thus developers must work hard to extract performance gains. An alternative computing paradigm is to use FPGA technolo...
Ravikesh Chandra, Oliver Sinnen
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Parallel Task for parallelizing object-oriented desktop applications
As multi-cores arrive for mainstream desktop systems, developers must invest the effort to parallelize their applications. We present Parallel Task (short ParaTask), a solution to ...
Nasser Giacaman, Oliver Sinnen
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
BitTorrent and fountain codes: friends or foes?
Abstract--BitTorrent is the most popular file sharing protocol on the Internet. It is proved that its performance are nearoptimal for generic file distribution when the overlay is ...
Salvatore Spoto, Rossano Gaeta, Marco Grangetto, M...
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
How Algorithm Definition Language (ADL) improves the performance of SmartGridSolve applications
In this paper, we study the importance of languages for the specification of algorithms in high performance Grid computing. We present one such language, the Algorithm Definition ...
Michele Guidolin, Thomas Brady, Alexey L. Lastovet...
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient traffic simulation using the GCA model
Christian Schäck, Rolf Hoffmann, Wolfgang Hee...
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Improving MapReduce performance through data placement in heterogeneous Hadoop clusters
MapReduce has become an important distributed processing model for large-scale data-intensive applications like data mining and web indexing. Hadoop
Jiong Xie, Shu Yin, Xiaojun Ruan, Zhiyang Ding, Yu...
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
pFANGS: Parallel high speed sequence mapping for Next Generation 454-roche Sequencing reads
Millions of DNA sequences (reads) are generated by Next Generation Sequencing machines everyday. There is a need for high performance algorithms to map these sequences to the refer...
Sanchit Misra, Ramanathan Narayanan, Wei-keng Liao...
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
On the parallelisation of MCMC-based image processing
Abstract--The increasing availability of multi-core and multiprocessor architectures provides new opportunities for improving the performance of many computer simulations. Markov C...
Jonathan M. R. Byrd, Stephen A. Jarvis, Abhir H. B...