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IPPS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Early experience with out-of-core applications on the Cray XMT
This paper describes our early experiences with a preproduction Cray XMT system that implements a scalable shared memory architecture with hardware support for multithreading. Unl...
Daniel G. Chavarría-Miranda, Andrès ...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Providing security to the Desktop Data Grid
Volunteer Computing is becoming a new paradigm not only for the Computational Grid, but also for institutions using production-level Data Grids because of the enormous storage pot...
Jesus Luna, Michail Flouris, Manolis Marazakis, An...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Assuring information quality in e-Science
In this paper we outline a framework for assuring information quality (IQ) in an e-Science context, using semiotics theory, semantic explanation of resources, and data couplings. ...
Ying Su, Zhanming Jin, Jie Peng
IPPS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Achieving and assuring high availability
We discuss availability aspects of large softwarebased systems. We classify faults into Bohrbugs, Mandelbugs and aging-related bugs, then examine mitigation methods for the last t...
Kishor S. Trivedi, Gianfranco Ciardo, Balakrishnan...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Self-optimizing distributed trees
We present a novel protocol for restructuring a treebased overlay network in response to the workload of the application running over it. Through low-cost restructuring operations...
Michael K. Reiter, Asad Samar, Chenxi Wang
IPPS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Qthreads: An API for programming with millions of lightweight threads
Large scale hardware-supported multithreading, an attractive means of increasing computational power, benefits significantly from low per-thread costs. Hardware support for ligh...
Kyle B. Wheeler, Richard C. Murphy, Douglas Thain
IPPS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A modeling approach for estimating execution time of long-running scientific applications
In a Grid computing environment, resources are shared among a large number of applications. Brokers and schedulers find matching resources and schedule the execution of the applic...
Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, Shu Shimizu, Javier Figueroa...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Improving software reliability and productivity via mining program source code
A software system interacts with third-party libraries through various APIs. Insufficient documentation and constant refactorings of third-party libraries make API library reuse ...
Tao Xie, Mithun Acharya, Suresh Thummalapenta, Kun...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
NETEMBED: A network resource mapping service for distributed applications
Emerging configurable infrastructures (large-scale overlays, grids, distributed testbeds, and sensor networks among others) comprise diverse sets of computing resources and netwo...
Jorge Londoño, Azer Bestavros
IPPS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Lattice Boltzmann simulation optimization on leading multicore platforms
We present an auto-tuning approach to optimize application performance on emerging multicore architectures. The methodology extends the idea of searchbased performance optimizatio...
Samuel Williams, Jonathan Carter, Leonid Oliker, J...