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2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Coordinating the use of GPU and CPU for improving performance of compute intensive applications
GPUs have recently evolved into very fast parallel co-processors capable of executing general purpose computations extremely efficiently. At the same time, multi-core CPUs evolutio...
George Teodoro, Rafael Sachetto Oliveira, Olcay Se...
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2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Design alternatives for implementing fence synchronization in MPI-2 one-sided communication for InfiniBand clusters
Scientific computing has seen an immense growth in recent years. The Message Passing Interface (MPI) has become the de-facto standard for parallel programming model for distribute...
Gopalakrishnan Santhanaraman, Tejus Gangadharappa,...
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2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
MITHRA: Multiple data independent tasks on a heterogeneous resource architecture
With the advent of high-performance COTS clusters, there is a need for a simple, scalable and faulttolerant parallel programming and execution paradigm. In this paper, we show that...
Reza Farivar, Abhishek Verma, Ellick Chan, Roy H. ...
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2009
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Using a cluster as a memory resource: A fast and large virtual memory on MPI
—The 64-bit OS provides ample memory address space that is beneficial for applications using a large amount of data. This paper proposes using a cluster as a memory resource for...
Hiroko Midorikawa, Kazuhiro Saito, Mitsuhisa Sato,...
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2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
24/7 Characterization of petascale I/O workloads
Abstract--Developing and tuning computational science applications to run on extreme scale systems are increasingly complicated processes. Challenges such as managing memory access...
Philip H. Carns, Robert Latham, Robert B. Ross, Ka...
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2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A performance evaluation of scientific I/O workloads on Flash-based SSDs
Abstract-- Flash-based solid state disks (SSDs) are an alternative form of storage device that promises to deliver higher performance than the traditional mechanically rotating har...
Stan Park, Kai Shen
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2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Analytical modeling and optimization for affinity based thread scheduling on multicore systems
Abstract--This paper proposes an analytical model to estimate the cost of running an affinity-based thread schedule on multicore systems. The model consists of three submodels to e...
Fengguang Song, Shirley Moore, Jack Dongarra
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2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
RDMA over Ethernet - A preliminary study
Hari Subramoni, Ping Lai, Miao Luo, Dhabaleswar K....
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2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A scalable and generic task scheduling system for communication libraries
Abstract—Since the advent of multi-core processors, the physionomy of typical clusters has dramatically evolved. This new massively multi-core era is a major change in architectu...
François Trahay, Alexandre Denis