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PODC
2009
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Brief announcement: collaborative measurement of upload speeds in P2P systems
We define and study the bandwidth determination problem in adhoc P2P environments. Using point-to-point bandwidth probes, the goal is to quickly determine each host's upload ...
John R. Douceur, James W. Mickens, Thomas Moscibro...
ICPP
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
End-to-End Study of Parallel Volume Rendering on the IBM Blue Gene/P
—In addition to their role as simulation engines, modern supercomputers can be harnessed for scientific visualization. Their extensive concurrency, parallel storage systems, and...
Tom Peterka, Hongfeng Yu, Robert B. Ross, Kwan-Liu...
EUROPAR
1998
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Parallel Sparse Matrix Computations Using the PINEAPL Library: A Performance Study
Abstract. The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is currently participating in the European HPCN Fourth Framework project on Parallel Industrial NumErical Applications and Portable Lib...
Arnold R. Krommer
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Locality-Aware Cooperative Cache Management Protocol to Improve Network File System Performance
In a distributed environment the utilization of file buffer caches in different clients may vary greatly. Cooperative caching is used to increase cache utilization by coordinatin...
Song Jiang, Fabrizio Petrini, Xiaoning Ding, Xiaod...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Using Leases to Support Server-Driven Consistency in Large-Scale Systems
This paper introduces volume leases as a mechanism for providing cache consistency for large-scale, geographically distributed networks. Volume leases are a variation of leases, w...
Jian Yin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahlin, Calvin L...