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ICPP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Location Dependent Cooperative Caching in MANET
— Location Dependent Information Services (LDISs) are gaining increasing popularity in recent years, and due to limited client power and intermittent connectivity, caching is an ...
Yilin Wang, Edward Chan, Wenzhong Li, Sanglu Lu
ICPP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Challenges and Advances in Parallel Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication
We identify the challenges that are special to parallel sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (PSpGEMM). We show that sparse algorithms are not as scalable as their dense counterpar...
Aydin Buluç, John R. Gilbert
ICPP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Replication Overlay Assisted Resource Discovery Service for Federated Systems
Abstract—Federated systems have recently attracted much attention because they allow loosely coupled organizations to share resources for common benefits. However, discovering r...
Hao Yang, Fan Ye, Zhen Liu
ICPP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Improving the Performance of Multithreaded Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication Using Index and Value Compression
Abstract—The Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication kernel exhibits limited potential for taking advantage of modern shared memory architectures due to its large memory bandwidth re...
Kornilios Kourtis, Georgios I. Goumas, Nectarios K...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Scalable Architecture for Crowd Simulation: Implementing a Parallel Action Server
Crowd simulation can be considered as a special case of Virtual Environments where avatars are intelligent agents instead of user-driven entities. These applications require both ...
Guillermo Vigueras, Miguel Lozano, Carlos Perez, J...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
On the Design of Fast Pseudo-Random Number Generators for the Cell Broadband Engine and an Application to Risk Analysis
Numerical simulations in computational physics, biology, and finance, often require the use of high quality and efficient parallel random number generators. We design and optimi...
David A. Bader, Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, Virat ...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Taming Single-Thread Program Performance on Many Distributed On-Chip L2 Caches
This paper presents a two-part study on managing distributed NUCA (Non-Uniform Cache Architecture) L2 caches in a future manycore processor to obtain high singlethread program per...
Lei Jin, Sangyeun Cho
ICPP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Solving Large, Irregular Graph Problems Using Adaptive Work-Stealing
Solving large, irregular graph problems efficiently is challenging. Current software systems and commodity multiprocessors do not support fine-grained, irregular parallelism wel...
Guojing Cong, Sreedhar B. Kodali, Sriram Krishnamo...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Enabling Streaming Remoting on Embedded Dual-Core Processors
Dual-core processors (and, to an extent, multicore processors) have been adopted in recent years to provide platforms that satisfy the performance requirements of popular multimed...
Kun-Yuan Hsieh, Yen-Chih Liu, Po-Wen Wu, Shou-Wei ...