Compiled communication has recently been proposed to improve communication performance for clusters of workstations. The idea of compiled communication is to apply more aggressive...
While clusters of commodity servers and switches are the most popular form of large-scale parallel computers, many programs are not easily parallelized for execution upon them. In...
Hanjun Kim, Arun Raman, Feng Liu, Jae W. Lee, Davi...
The performance of MPI collective operations, such as broadcast and reduction, is heavily affected by network topologies, especially in grid environments. Many techniques to cons...
-- Internet routers and Ethernet switches contain packet buffers to hold packets during times of congestion. Packet buffers are at the heart of every packet switch and router, whic...
Gang Scheduling and related techniques are widely believed to be necessary for efficientjob scheduling on distributed memory parallel computers. This is hecause they minimize cont...