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IPPS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Performance evaluation of gang scheduling in a two-cluster system with migrations
Gang scheduling is considered to be a highly effective task scheduling policy for distributed systems. In this paper we present a migration scheme which reduces the fragmentation ...
Zafeirios C. Papazachos, Helen D. Karatza
IPPS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Performance modeling in action: Performance prediction of a Cray XT4 system during upgrade
We present predictive performance models of two of the petascale applications, S3D and GTC, from the DOE Office of Science workload. We outline the development of these models and...
Kevin J. Barker, Kei Davis, Darren J. Kerbyson
IPPS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
DMTCP: Transparent checkpointing for cluster computations and the desktop
DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded CheckPointing) is a transparent user-level checkpointing package for distributed applications. Checkpointing and restart is demonstrated for a wid...
Jason Ansel, Kapil Arya, Gene Cooperman
IPPS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
GenWrapper: A generic wrapper for running legacy applications on desktop grids
Desktop Grids represent an alternative trend in Grid computing using the same software infrastructure as Volunteer Computing projects, such as BOINC. Applications to be deployed o...
Csaba Attila Marosi, Zoltán Balaton, P&eacu...
IPPS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Validating Wrekavoc: A tool for heterogeneity emulation
Experimental validation and testing of solutions designed for heterogeneous environment is a challenging issue. Wrekavoc is a tool for performing such validation. It runs unmodiï¬...
Olivier Dubuisson, Jens Gustedt, Emmanuel Jeannot
IPPS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
CellMR: A framework for supporting mapreduce on asymmetric cell-based clusters
The use of asymmetric multi-core processors with onchip computational accelerators is becoming common in a variety of environments ranging from scientiï¬c computing to enterprise...
M. Mustafa Rafique, Benjamin Rose, Ali Raza Butt, ...
IPPS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Accurate analytical performance model of communications in MPI applications
This paper presents a new LogP-based model, called LoOgGP, which allows an accurate characterization of MPI applications based on microbenchmark measurements. This new model is an...
Diego Rodriguez Martínez, José Carlo...
IPPS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Sparse collective operations for MPI
Abstract—We discuss issues in designing sparse (nearest neighbor) collective operations for communication and reduction operations in small neighborhoods for the Message Passing ...
Torsten Hoefler, Jesper Larsson Träff
IPPS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluating the use of GPUs in liver image segmentation and HMMER database searches
In this paper we present the results of parallelizing two life sciences applications, Markov random ï¬eldsbased (MRF) liver segmentation and HMMER’s Viterbi algorithm, using GP...
John Paul Walters, Vidyananth Balu, Suryaprakash K...
IPPS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Dynamic iterations for the solution of ordinary differential equations on multicore processors
In the past few years, there has been a trend of providing increased computing power through greater number of cores on a chip, rather than through higher clock speeds. In order t...
Yanan Yu, Ashok Srinivasan