In this paper we investigate feedback-directed dynamic selection between different implementations of atomic blocks. We initially execute atomic blocks using STM with optimistic c...
HMMer is a widely-used bioinformatics software package that uses profile HMMs (Hidden Markov Models) to model the primary structure consensus of a family of protein or nucleic aci...
A well-known problem in P2P systems is freeriding, where users do not share content if there is no incentive to do so. In this paper, we distinguish lazy freeriders that are merel...
Michel Meulpolder, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J. E...
A reduction is a computation in which a common operation, such as a sum, is to be performed across multiple pieces of data, each supplied by a separate task. We introduce phaser a...
Jun Shirako, David M. Peixotto, Vivek Sarkar, Will...
—High-end machines at modern HPC centers are constantly undergoing hardware and system software upgrades – necessitating frequent rebuilds of application codes. The number of p...