Abstract. The global quiescence of a distributed computation (or distributed termination detection) is an important problem. Some concurrent programming languages and systems provi...
Billy Yan-Kit Man, Hiu Ning (Angela) Chan, Andrew ...
Although it is increasingly difficult for large scientific programs to attain a significant fraction of peak performance on systems based on microprocessors with substantial instr...
John M. Mellor-Crummey, Robert J. Fowler, Gabriel ...
Hardware designers are increasingly turning to Single Chip Multi-Processors to achieve power and throughput goals. To further increase performance for a specific application the c...
Stephen D. Craven, Cameron Patterson, Peter M. Ath...
Switch-based interconnects are used in a number of application domains including parallel system interconnects, local area networks, and wide area networks. However, very few swit...
Rajeev Sivaram, Craig B. Stunkel, Dhabaleswar K. P...
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges as they need to process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents. To deal with this heavy workloa...