Dryad is a general-purpose distributed execution engine for coarse-grain data-parallel applications. A Dryad application combines computational “vertices” with communication ...
Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrel...
Abstract. Most parallel systems on which MPI is used are now hierarchical: some processors are much closer to others in terms of interconnect performance. One of the most common su...
Hao Zhu, David Goodell, William Gropp, Rajeev Thak...
Hybrid chip multithreaded SMPs present new challenges as well as new opportunities to maximize performance. Our intention is to discover the optimal operating configuration of suc...
The purpose of this research is to explore the capabilities of future, multi-core heterogeneous systems, with specialized communication support, to be used as efficient and flex...
Ada Gavrilovska, Sanjay Kumar, Srikanth Sundaragop...
Single thread performance remains an important consideration even for multicore, multiprocessor systems. As a result, techniques for improving single thread performance using mult...