The characteristics of irregular algorithms make a parallel implementation difficult, especially for PC clusters or clusters of SMPs. These characteristics may include an unpredi...
Metacomputing allows the exploitation of geographically seperate, heterogenous networks and resources. Most metacomputers are feature rich and carry a long, complicated installati...
—Cloud resources are usually priced in multiple markets with different service guarantees. For example, Amazon EC2 prices virtual instances under three pricing schemes — the su...
Thread-Level Speculation (TLS) allows us to automatically parallelize general-purpose programs by supporting parallel execution of threads that might not actually be independent. ...
J. Gregory Steffan, Christopher B. Colohan, Antoni...
Convergent scheduling is a general framework for instruction scheduling and cluster assignment for parallel, clustered architectures. A convergent scheduler is composed of many ind...
Walter Lee, Diego Puppin, Shane Swenson, Saman P. ...