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IPPS
1999
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Process Networks as a High-Level Notation for Metacomputing
Abstract. Our work involves the development of a prototype Geographical Information System GIS as an example of the use of process networks as a well-de ned high-level semantic mod...
Darren Webb, Andrew L. Wendelborn, Kevin Maciunas
PPSN
2000
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
CLUSTER
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Minimizing the Network Overhead of Checkpointing in Cycle-harvesting Cluster Environments
Cycle-harvesting systems such as Condor have been developed to make desktop machines in a local area (which are often similar to clusters in hardware configuration) available as ...
Daniel Nurmi, John Brevik, Richard Wolski
IPPS
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Inter-block GPU communication via fast barrier synchronization
The graphics processing unit (GPU) has evolved from a fixedfunction processor with programmable stages to a programmable processor with many fixed-function components that deliver...
Shucai Xiao, Wu-chun Feng
HPCA
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Thread-safe dynamic binary translation using transactional memory
Dynamic binary translation (DBT) is a runtime instrumentation technique commonly used to support profiling, optimization, secure execution, and bug detection tools for application...
JaeWoong Chung, Michael Dalton, Hari Kannan, Chris...