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IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Optimizing Irregular HPF Applications using Halos
This paper presents language features for High Performance Fortran HPF to specify non-local access patterns of distributed arrays, called halos, and to control the communication as...
Siegfried Benkner
IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Mechanisms for Just-in-Time Allocation of Resources to Adaptive Parallel Programs
Adaptive parallel computations--computations that can adapt to changes in resource availability and requirement--can effectively use networked machines because they dynamically ex...
Arash Baratloo, Ayal Itzkovitz, Zvi M. Kedem, Yuan...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Sparse Matrix Block-Cyclic Redistribution
Run-time support for the CYCLIC(k) redistribution on the SPMD computation model is presently very relevant for the scientific community. This work is focused to the characterizati...
Gerardo Bandera, Emilio L. Zapata
IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
BRISK: A Portable and Flexible Distributed Instrumentation System
Researchers and practitioners in the area of parallel and distributed computing have been lacking a portable, flexible and robust distributed instrumentation system. We present th...
Aleksandar M. Bakic, Matt W. Mutka, Diane T. Rover
IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
MPIJAVA: An Object-Oriented JAVA Interface to MPI
Abstract. A basic prerequisite for parallel programming is a good communication API. The recent interest in using Java for scienti c and engineering application has led to several ...
Mark Baker, Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey Fox, Sung Ho...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Cascaded Execution: Speeding Up Unparallelized Execution on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
Both inherently sequential code and limitations of analysis techniques prevent full parallelization of many applications by parallelizing compilers. Amdahl's Law tells us tha...
Ruth E. Anderson, Thu D. Nguyen, John Zahorjan
IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Reusable Internal Hardware Templates
This paper describes the framework of internal hardware templates. These reusable templates can be instantiated, inside the FPGA, to the required precision. Thus, the resource util...
Ka-an Agun, J. Morris Chang
IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Hiding Communication Latency in Reconfigurable Message-Passing Environments
Communication overhead is one of the most important factors affecting the performance of message passing multicomputers. We present evidence (through the analysis of several paral...
Ahmad Afsahi, Nikitas J. Dimopoulos
IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Parallel Biological Sequence Comparison Using Prefix Computations
We present practical parallel algorithms using prefix computations for various problems that arise in pairwise comparison of biological sequences. We consider both constant and af...
Srinivas Aluru, Natsuhiko Futamura, Kishan Mehrotr...