Recent advances in high-speed networks, rapid improvements in microprocessor design, and availability of highly performing clustering software implementations enables cost-effecti...
Ghassan Fadlallah, Michel Lavoie, Louis-A. Dessain...
Given the large communication overheads characteristic of modern parallel machines, optimizations that eliminate, hide or parallelize communication may improve the performance of ...
The movement to multi-core processors increases the need for simpler, more robust parallel programming models. Atomic sections have been widely recognized for their ease of use. T...
Bill McCloskey, Feng Zhou, David Gay, Eric A. Brew...
Parallel programming models should attempt to satisfy two conflicting goals. On one hand, they should hide architectural details so that algorithm designers can write simple, port...
Brian Grayson, Michael Dahlin, Vijaya Ramachandran
Although processors become massively multicore and therefore new programming models mix message passing and multi-threading, the effects of threads on communication libraries rema...