: This is a position paper introducing blob computing: A Blob is a generic primitive used to structure a uniform computing substrate into an easier-to-program parallel virtual mach...
Abstract--A hybrid MPI/Pthreads parallelization was implemented in the RAxML phylogenetics code. New MPI code was added to the existing Pthreads production code to exploit parallel...
Debugging the performance of parallel and distributed systems remains a difficult task despite the widespread use of middleware packages for automatic distribution, communication...
Speculative computing is a technique to improve the execution time of certain applications by starting some computations before it is known that the computations are required. A s...
In the past decade cluster computing platforms have been widely applied to support a variety of scientific and commercial applications, many of which are parallel in nature. Howev...