MapReduce provides a parallel and scalable programming model for data-intensive business and scientific applications. MapReduce and its de facto open source project, called Hadoop...
BlueGene/L is currently the world’s fastest supercomputer. It consists of a large number of low power dual-processor compute nodes interconnected by high speed torus and collect...
In recent years, GPUs have emerged as an extremely cost-effective means for achieving high performance. Many application developers, including those with no prior parallel program...
Mai Zheng, Vignesh T. Ravi, Feng Qin, Gagan Agrawa...
The memory overhead introduced by directories constitutes a major hurdle in the scalability of cc-NUMA architectures, which makes the shared-memory paradigm unfeasible for very la...
Predictions computed by a classification tree are usually constant on axis-parallel hyperrectangles corresponding to the leaves and have strict jumps on their boundaries. The densi...