Efficiency of synchronization mechanisms can limit the parallel performance of many shared-memory applications. In addition, the ever increasing performance gap between processor...
This paper examinestheimplicationsofgang schedulingfor generalpurpose multiprocessors. The workloads in these environments include both compute-bound parallel jobs, which often re...
Walter Lee, Matthew Frank, Victor Lee, Kenneth Mac...
Despite recent developments in higher-level middleware for the Grid supporting high level of ease-of-programming, hurdles for widespread adoption of Grids remain high, due to (1) ...
Shared machines in opportunistic grids typically have large quantities of unused disk space. These resources could be used to store application and checkpointing data when the mac...
iDIBS is a peer-to-peer backup system which optimizes the Distributed Internet Backup System (DIBS). iDIBS offers increased reliability by enhancing the robustness of existing pac...
Faruck Morcos, Thidapat Chantem, Philip Little, Ti...