We analyze various stochastic processes for generating permutations almost uniformly at random in distributed and parallel systems. All our protocols are simple, elegant and are b...
Background: Parallel T-Coffee (PTC) was the first parallel implementation of the T-Coffee multiple sequence alignment tool. It is based on MPI and RMA mechanisms. Its purpose is t...
Josep Rius Torrento, Fernando Cores, Francesc Sols...
This paper presents a classification-driven biomedical image retrieval system to bride the semantic gap by transforming image features to their global categories at different gran...
Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Sameer Antani, George R. Thom...
Current shared memory multicore and multiprocessor systems are nondeterministic. Each time these systems execute a multithreaded application, even if supplied with the same input,...
Joseph Devietti, Brandon Lucia, Luis Ceze, Mark Os...
Power consumption within the disk-based storage subsystem forms a substantial portion of the overall energy footprint in commodity systems. Researchers have proposed external cach...
Luis Useche, Jorge Guerra, Medha Bhadkamkar, Mauri...