Clusters of workstations are increasingly being viewed as a cost-e ective alternative to parallel supercomputers. However, resource management and scheduling on workstations clust...
Abdur Chowdhury, Lisa D. Nicklas, Sanjeev Setia, E...
The current multiprocessors such asCray T3D support interprocessor communication using partitioned dimension-order routers (PDRs). In a PDR implementation, the routing logic and sw...
Accessing data from numerous widely-distributed sources poses signi cant new challenges for query optimization and execution. Congestion and failures in the network can introduce ...
Laurent Amsaleg, Michael J. Franklin, Anthony Toma...
A quantitative comparison of the BSP and LogP models of parallel computation is developed. We concentrate on a variant of LogP that disallows the so-called stalling behavior, alth...
Gianfranco Bilardi, Kieran T. Herley, Andrea Pietr...
Photo-realistic computergraphics is an area of research which tries to develop algorithms and methods to render images of arti cial models or worlds as realistically as possible, b...