The availability of large quantities of processors is a crucial enabler of many-task computing. Voluntary computing systems have proven that it is possible to build computing plat...
Rostand Costa, Francisco V. Brasileiro, Guido Lemo...
Large–scale parallel applications performing global synchronization may spend a significant amount of execution time waiting for the completion of a barrier operation. Conseque...
Despite the enormous amount of research and development work in the area of parallel computing, it is a common observation that simultaneous performance and ease-of-use are elusiv...
Visualization, interaction, and simulation (VIS) constitute a class of applications that is growing in importance. This class includes applications such as graphics rendering, vid...
Aqeel Mahesri, Daniel R. Johnson, Neal C. Crago, S...
Chip multiprocessors (CMPs) are now commonplace, and the number of cores on a CMP is likely to grow steadily. However, in order to harness the additional compute resources of a CM...
Sanjeev Kumar, Christopher J. Hughes, Anthony D. N...