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2008
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Empirical-based probabilistic upper bounds for urgent computing applications
—Scientific simulation and modeling often aid in making critical decisions in such diverse fields as city planning, severe weather prediction and influenza modeling. In some o...
Nick Trebon, Peter H. Beckman
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2008
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Are nonblocking networks really needed for high-end-computing workloads?
—High-speed interconnects are frequently used to provide scalable communication on increasingly large high-end computing systems. Often, these networks are nonblocking, where the...
Narayan Desai, Pavan Balaji, P. Sadayappan, Mohamm...
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2008
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
SPRAT: Runtime processor selection for energy-aware computing
—A commodity personal computer (PC) can be seen as a hybrid computing system equipped with two different kinds of processors, i.e. CPU and a graphics processing unit (GPU). Since...
Hiroyuki Takizawa, Katsuto Sato, Hiroaki Kobayashi
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2008
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Towards an understanding of the performance of MPI-IO in Lustre file systems
—Lustre is becoming an increasingly important file system for large-scale computing clusters. The problem, however, is that many data-intensive applications use MPI-IO for their ...
Jeremy Logan, Phillip M. Dickens
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2008
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Exploiting data compression in collective I/O techniques
This paper presents Two-Phase Compressed I/O (TPC I/O,) an optimization of the Two-Phase collective I/O technique from ROMIO, the most popular MPI-IO implementation. In order to r...
Rosa Filgueira, David E. Singh, Juan Carlos Pichel...
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2008
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Live and incremental whole-system migration of virtual machines using block-bitmap
—In this paper, we describe a whole-system live migration scheme, which transfers the whole system run-time state, including CPU state, memory data, and local disk storage, of th...
Yingwei Luo, Binbin Zhang, Xiaolin Wang, Zhenlin W...
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2008
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Redistribution aware two-step scheduling for mixed-parallel applications
— Applications raising in many scientific fields exhibit both data and task parallelism that have to be exploited efficiently. A classic approach is to structure those applica...
Sascha Hunold, Thomas Rauber, Frédér...
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2008
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
A multicore-enabled multirail communication engine
—The current trend in clusters architecture leads toward a massive use of multicore chips. This hardware evolution raises bottleneck issues at the network interface level. The us...
Elisabeth Brunet, François Trahay, Alexandr...
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2008
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Supporting storage resources in Urgent Computing Environments
Abstract—The Special PRiority and Urgent Computing Environment (SPRUCE) provides on-demand access to highperformance computing resources for time-critical applications. While SPR...
Jason Cope, Henry M. Tufo
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2008
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Intelligent compilers
—The industry is now in agreement that the future of architecture design lies in multiple cores. As a consequence, all computer systems today, from embedded devices to petascale ...
John Cavazos