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1993
Tsinghua U.
15 years 6 months ago
The Effectiveness of Decoupling
This paper examines the effectiveness of decoupling as an optimization technique for high-performance computer architectures. Decoupled access execute architectures are described,...
Peter L. Bird, Alasdair Rawsthorne, Nigel P. Topha...
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CORR
2006
Springer
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15 years 2 months ago
Methods for Partitioning Data to Improve Parallel Execution Time for Sorting on Heterogeneous Clusters
The aim of the paper is to introduce general techniques in order to optimize the parallel execution time of sorting on a distributed architectures with processors of various speeds...
Christophe Cérin, Jean-Christophe Dubacq, J...
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CIKM
2004
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
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VECPAR
2004
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Message Strip-Mining Heuristics for High Speed Networks
In this work we investigate how the compiler technique of message strip mining performs in practice on contemporary high performance networks. Message strip mining attempts to redu...
Costin Iancu, Parry Husbands, Wei Chen
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HPDC
1999
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Remote Application Scheduling on Metacomputing Systems
Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...
Heath A. James, Kenneth A. Hawick