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PPOPP
2012
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Deterministic parallel random-number generation for dynamic-multithreading platforms
Existing concurrency platforms for dynamic multithreading do not provide repeatable parallel random-number generators. This paper proposes that a mechanism called pedigrees be bui...
Charles E. Leiserson, Tao B. Schardl, Jim Sukha
COOPIS
1999
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Using Fagin's Algorithm for Merging Ranked Results in Multimedia Middleware
A distributed multimedia information system allows users to access data of different modalities, from different data sources, ranked by various combinationsof criteria. In [6], Fa...
Edward L. Wimmers, Laura M. Haas, Mary Tork Roth, ...
EUROPAR
2001
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Polynomial Preconditioning for Specially Structured Linear Systems of Equations
For the solution of the SID (Symmetric InDefinite) linear systems, the use of the GLS (Generalized Least-Squares) polynomial preconditioner can improve the execution efficiency of...
Y. Liang, Jim Weston, Marek Szularz
HPDC
2007
IEEE
16 years 9 days ago
Ridge: combining reliability and performance in open grid platforms
Large-scale donation-based distributed infrastructures need to cope with the inherent unreliability of participant nodes. A widely-used work scheduling technique in such environme...
Krishnaveni Budati, Jason D. Sonnek, Abhishek Chan...
ICFP
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Experience report: erlang in acoustic ray tracing
We investigated the relative merits of C++ and Erlang in the implementation of a parallel acoustic ray tracing algorithm for the U.S. Navy. We found a much smaller learning curve ...
Christian Convey, Andrew Fredricks, Christopher Ga...