Consider a heterogeneous cluster system, consisting of processors with varying processing capabilities and network links with varying bandwidths. Given a DAG application to be sch...
We have identified a fundamental operator in wireless networks that we named the local leader election in which the goal is to select a node in a spatially close neighborhood. We ...
Gilbert Chen, Joel W. Branch, Boleslaw K. Szymansk...
Multiple copper-based commodity Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) interconnects (adapters) on a single host can lead to Linux clusters with mesh/torus connections without using expensive sw...
Jie Chen, William A. Watson III, Robert Edwards, W...
Most of current peer-to-peer designs build their own system overlays independent of the physical one. Nodes within unstructured systems form a random overlay, on the contrary, str...
Noncontiguous data access is a very common access pattern in many scientific applications. Using POSIX I/O to access many pieces of noncontiguous data segments will generate a lot...