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IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
An Element-Based Concurrent Partitioner for Unstructured Finite Element Meshes
A concurrent partitioner for partitioning unstructured finite element meshes on distributed memory architectures is developed. The partitioner uses an element-based partitioning st...
Hong Q. Ding, Robert D. Ferraro
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Implementation of a SliM Array Processor
This paper presents the design and implementation of a Sliding Memory Plane (SliM) Array Processor, a mesh-connected SIMD architecture. To build the array processor, we developed ...
Hyun M. Chang, Myung Hoon Sunwoo, Tai-Hoon Cho
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Partitionability of the Multistage Interconnection Networks
- Partitionability allows the creation of many physically independent subsystems, each of which retains an identical functionality as its parent network and has no communication in...
Yeimkuan Chang
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Software Techniques for Improving MPP Bulk-Transfer Performance
Brewer and Kuszmaul [BK94] demonstrated how barriers and traffic interleaving can alleviate the problem of bulk-transfer performance degradation on the Thinking Machines CM-5, by ...
Eric A. Brewer, Paul Gauthier, Armando Fox, Angela...
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Dag-Consistent Distributed Shared Memory
We introduce dag consistency, a relaxed consistency model for distributed shared memory which is suitable for multithreaded programming. We have implemented dag consistency in sof...
Robert D. Blumofe, Matteo Frigo, Christopher F. Jo...
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Self-Timed Resynchronization: A Post-Optimization for Static Multiprocessor Schedules
In a shared-memory multiprocessor system, it is possible that certain synchronization operations are redundant -that is, their corresponding sequencing requirements are enforced c...
Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, Sundararajan Sriram, Edwa...
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Benefits of Processor Clustering in Designing Large Parallel Systems: When and How?
Advances in multiprocessor interconnect technologyare leading to high performance networks. However, software overheadsassociated with message passing are limiting the processors ...
Debashis Basak, Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Mohammad Ban...
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Resource Placement in Torus-Based Networks
This paper investigates methods to locate system resources, such as expensive hardware or software modules, to provide the most effective cost / performance tradeoffs in a torus p...
Myung M. Bae, Bella Bose
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Parallel Algorithms for Image Enhancement and Segmentation by Region Growing with an Experimental Study
This paper presents e cient and portable implementations of a useful image enhancement process, the Symmetric Neighborhood Filter SNF, and an image segmentation technique which ma...
David A. Bader, Joseph JáJá, David H...