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IPPS
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Performance Monitoring and Evaluation of a UPC Implementation on a NUMA Architecture
UPC is an explicit parallel extension of ANSI C, which has been gaining rising attention from vendors and users. In this work, we consider the low-level monitoring and experimenta...
François Cantonnet, Yiyi Yao, Smita Annared...
IPPS
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
New Dynamic Heuristics in the Client-Agent-Server Model
MCT is a widely used heuristic for scheduling tasks onto grid platforms. However, when dealing with many tasks, MCT tends to dramatically delay already mapped task completion time...
Yves Caniou, Emmanuel Jeannot
IPPS
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Performing DNA Comparison on a Bio-Inspired Tissue of FPGAs
String comparison is a critical issue in many application domains, including speech recognition, contents search, and bioinformatics. The similarity between two strings of lengths...
Matteo Canella, Filippo Miglioli, Alessandro Bogli...
IPPS
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Quantifying Locality Effect in Data Access Delay: Memory logP
The application of hardware-parameterized models to distributed systems can result in omission of key bottlenecks such as the full cost of inter-node communication in a shared mem...
Kirk W. Cameron, Xian-He Sun
IPPS
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Performance Prediction of Paging Workloads Using Lightweight Tracing
A trace of a workload’s system calls can be obtained with minimal interference, and can be used to drive repeatable experiments to evaluate system configuration alternatives. R...
Ariel N. Burton, Paul H. J. Kelly
IPPS
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Optimizing Synchronization Operations for Remote Memory Communication Systems
Synchronization operations, such as fence and locking, are used in many parallel operations accessing shared memory. However, a process which is blocked waiting for a fence operat...
Darius Buntinas, Amina Saify, Dhabaleswar K. Panda...
IPPS
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
An Approach to Heterogeneous Process State Capture/Recovery to Achieve Minimum Performance Overhead During Normal Execution
A major issue of process state capture in heterogeneous computing systems is capture initiation. Current approaches incur significant performance overhead during normal execution ...
Prashanth P. Bungale, Swaroop Sridhar, Vinay Krish...
IPPS
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
The Maximal Utilization of Processor Co-Allocation in Multicluster Systems
In systems consisting of multiple clusters of processors which employ space sharing for scheduling jobs, such as our Distributed ASCI1 Supercomputer (DAS), coallocation, i.e., the...
Anca I. D. Bucur, Dick H. J. Epema
IPPS
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
CORBA Benchmarking: A Course with Hidden Obstacles
Numerous projects have evaluated the performance of CORBA middleware over the past decade. Interestingly, many of the published results are either gathered or analyzed imprecisely...
Adam Buble, Lubomír Bulej, Petr Tuma