Networks of workstations and high-performance microcomputers have been rarely used for running highperformance applicationslike multimedia, simulations,scientific and engineering ...
that defines abstract costs for measuring or analyzing the performance of computations, (2) to supply the users with a mapping of these costs onto runtimes on various machine model...
Compile-time scheduling is one approach to extract parallelism which has proved effective when the execution behavior is predictable. Unfortunately, the performance of most priori...
The number of documents that are indexed by a search engine is referred to as the size of the search engine. The information about the size of each underlying search engine is ess...
Large-scale cluster-based Internet services often host partitioned datasets to provide incremental scalability. The aggregation of results produced from multiple partitions is a f...