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IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
An Adaptive Approach to Data Placement
Programming distributed-memory machines requires careful placement of datato balance the computationalload among the nodes and minimize excess data movement between the nodes. Mos...
David K. Lowenthal, Gregory R. Andrews
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
ECO: Efficient Collective Operations for Communication on Heterogeneous Networks
PVM and other distributed computing systems have enabled the use of networks of workstations for parallel computation, but their approach of treating all networks as collections o...
Bruce Lowekamp, Adam Beguelin
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
The Chessboard Distance Transform and the Medial Axis Transform are Interchangeable
The distance transform (DT) and the medial axis transform (MAT) are two image computation tools used to extract the information about the shape and the position of the foreground ...
Yu-Hua Lee, Shi-Jinn Horng
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Method for Register Allocation to Loops in Multiple Register File Architectures
Multiple instruction issue processors place high demands on register file bandwidth. One solution to reduce this bottleneck is the use of multiple register files. Register allocat...
David J. Kolson, Alexandru Nicolau, Nikil D. Dutt,...
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Kiloprocessor Extensions to SCI
To expand the Scalable Coherent Interface's (SCI) capabilities so it can be used to efficiently handle sharing in systems of hundreds or even thousands of processors, the SCI...
Stefanos Kaxiras
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Hierarchical Parallel Processing System for the Multipass-Rendering Method
The multipass-rendering method integrating radiosity with ray-tracing gives one of the best solutions for synthesizing photo-realistic images. However, the method is also computat...
Hiroaki Kobayashi, Hitoshi Yamauchi, Yuichiro Toh,...
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A New Approach to Pipeline FFT Processor
A new VLSI architecture for real-time pipeline FFT processor is proposed. A hardware oriented radix-22 algorithm is derived by integrating a twiddle factor decomposition technique ...
Shousheng He, Mats Torkelson
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Software Support for Virtual Memory-Mapped Communication
Virtual memory-mapped communication (VMMC) is a communication model providing direct data transfer between the sender's and receiver's virtual address spaces. This model...
Cezary Dubnicki, Liviu Iftode, Edward W. Felten, K...
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
How to Optimize Residual Communications?
Minimizing communications when mapping affine loop nests onto distributed memory parallel computers has already drawn a lot of attention. This paper focuses on the next step: as i...
Michèle Dion, Cyril Randriamaro, Yves Rober...