In a Linux cluster, as in any multi-processor system, the inter-processor communication rate is the major limiting factor to its general usefulness. This research is geared toward...
Abstract. IBM is currently developing the new line of BlueGene/L supercomputers. The top-of-the-line installation is planned to be a 65,536 processors system featuring a peak perfo...
Franz Franchetti, Stefan Kral, Juergen Lorenz, Mar...
Work stealing is a popular method of scheduling fine-grained parallel tasks. The performance of work stealing has been extensively studied, both theoretically and empirically, but...
Daniel Spoonhower, Guy E. Blelloch, Phillip B. Gib...
Several new Complex Event Processing (CEP) engines have been recently released, many of which are intended to be used in performance sensitive scenarios - like fraud detection, tr...
Marcelo R. N. Mendes, Pedro Bizarro, Paulo Marques
During concurrent I/O workloads, sequential access to one I/O stream can be interrupted by accesses to other streams in the system. Frequent switching between multiple sequential ...
Chuanpeng Li, Kai Shen, Athanasios E. Papathanasio...