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CCGRID
2010
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Performance of Windows Multicore Systems on Threading and MPI
We present performance results on a Windows cluster with up to 768 cores using MPI and two variants of threading
Judy Qiu, Scott Beason, Seung-Hee Bae, Saliya Ekan...
MKERN
1992
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Data Movement in Kernelized Systems
of the kernel abstractions and system servers and describe in detail the read() and write() paths of these two systems. We then break down their read() and write() performance and ...
Randall W. Dean, François Armand
USENIX
1996
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A Performance Comparison of UNIX Operating Systems on the Pentium
This paper evaluates the performance of three popular versions of the UNIX operating system on the x86 architecture: Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We evaluate the systems using fre...
Kevin Lai, Mary Baker
OSDI
1996
ACM
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A Trace-Driven Comparison of Algorithms for Parallel Prefetching and Caching
High-performance I/O systems depend on prefetching and caching in order to deliver good performance to applications. These two techniques have generally been considered in isolati...
Tracy Kimbrel, Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, ...
CASCON
1996
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Data locality sensitivity of multithreaded computations on a distributed-memory multiprocessor
The locality of the data in parallel programs is known to have a strong impact on the performance of distributed-memory multiprocessor systems. The worse the locality in access pa...
Xinmin Tian, Shashank S. Nemawarkar, Guang R. Gao,...
CASCON
1996
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Automatic generation of performance models for distributed application systems
Organizations have become increasingly dependent on computing systems to achieve their business goals. The performance of these systems in terms of response times and cost has a m...
M. Qin, R. Lee, Asham El Rayess, Vidar Vetland, Je...
WSC
1997
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A Performance Monitoring Application for Distributed Interactive Simulations (DIS)
This paper discusses the design, development, and use of a performance monitoring tool for Distributed Interactive Simulations (DIS). A typical DIS environment consists of hundred...
David B. Cavitt, C. Michael Overstreet, Kurt Maly
WSC
1998
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Belief Networks in Construction Simulation
A method for automatically improving the performance of construction operations was developed by the integration of computer simulation and belief networks. The simulation model i...
Brenda McCabe
PDPTA
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Performance Monitoring on an HPVM Cluster
Clusters of workstations are becoming popular platforms for parallel computing, but performance on these systems is more complex and harder to predict than on traditional parallel...
Geetanjali Sampemane, Scott Pakin, Andrew A. Chien
PDPTA
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Performance Analysis of a Cluster File System
Design of cluster file system is very important for building a general-purpose cluster with commodity components. To provide scalable high I/O performance needed in the scientific...
Cong Du, Zhiwei Xu