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ICFP
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A scheduling framework for general-purpose parallel languages
The trend in microprocessor design toward multicore and manycore processors means that future performance gains in software will largely come from harnessing parallelism. To reali...
Matthew Fluet, Mike Rainey, John H. Reppy
EUROPAR
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Scalable Parallel Graph Coloring Algorithm for Distributed Memory Computers
In large-scale parallel applications a graph coloring is often carried out to schedule computational tasks. In this paper, we describe a new distributedmemory algorithm for doing t...
Erik G. Boman, Doruk Bozdag, Ümit V. Ç...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments
MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
IEEEPACT
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The OpenTM Transactional Application Programming Interface
Transactional Memory (TM) simplifies parallel programming by supporting atomic and isolated execution of user-identified tasks. To date, TM programming has required the use of l...
Woongki Baek, Chi Cao Minh, Martin Trautmann, Chri...