MapReduce has been prevalent for running data-parallel applications. By hiding other non-functionality parts such as parallelism, fault tolerance and load balance from programmers,...
Shengkai Zhu, Zhiwei Xiao, Haibo Chen, Rong Chen, ...
SGI recently introduced the Altix 3700. In contrast to previous SGI systems, the Altix uses a modified version of the open source Linux operating system and the latest Intel IA-64...
Thomas H. Dunigan, Jeffrey S. Vetter, Patrick H. W...
There are many algorithms for concurrent garbage collection, but they are complex to describe, verify, and implement. This has resulted in a poor understanding of the relationships...
Martin T. Vechev, David F. Bacon, Perry Cheng, Dav...
Abstract. The prosodic specification of an utterance to be spoken by a Textto-Speech synthesis system can be devised in break indices, pitch accents and boundary tones. In particu...
A task-based execution provides a universal approach to dynamic load balancing for irregular applications. Tasks are arbitrary units of work that are created dynamically at runtim...