The emergence of grid and a new class of data-driven applications is making a new form of parallelism desirable, which we refer to as coarse-grained pipelined parallelism. This pa...
The Amoeba group communication system has two unique aspects: (1) it uses a sequencer-based protocol with negative acknowledgements for achieving a total order on all group messag...
Chip multiprocessors with multiple simpler cores are gaining popularity because they have the potential to drive future performance gains without exacerbating the problems of powe...
Hongtao Zhong, Steven A. Lieberman, Scott A. Mahlk...
—With users increasingly focused on an online world, an emerging challenge for the network infrastructure is the need to support Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (...
BlueGene/L is currently the world’s fastest supercomputer. It consists of a large number of low power dual-processor compute nodes interconnected by high speed torus and collect...