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ICPP
2008
IEEE
16 years 28 days ago
Scalable Techniques for Transparent Privatization in Software Transactional Memory
—We address the recently recognized privatization problem in software transactional memory (STM) runtimes, and introduce the notion of partially visible reads (PVRs) to heuristic...
Virendra J. Marathe, Michael F. Spear, Michael L. ...
OTM
2007
Springer
16 years 18 days ago
Improving on Version Stamps
Optimistic distributed systems often rely on version vectors or their variants in order to track updates on replicated objects. Some of these mechanisms rely on some form of global...
Paulo Sérgio Almeida, Carlos Baquero, Victo...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
16 years 15 days ago
Topology-aware task mapping for reducing communication contention on large parallel machines
Communication latencies constitute a significant factor in the performance of parallel applications. With techniques such as wormhole routing, the variation in no-load latencies ...
T. Agarwal, Amit Sharma, A. Laxmikant, Laxmikant V...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
16 years 15 days ago
A probabilistic approach for fault tolerant multiprocessor real-time scheduling
In this paper we tackle the problem of scheduling a periodic real-time system on identical multiprocessor platforms, moreover the tasks considered may fail with a given probabilit...
Vandy Berten, Joël Goossens, Emmanuel Jeannot
ICPPW
2005
IEEE
16 years 2 days ago
Gene Ordering in Microarray Data Using Parallel Memetic Algorithms
This paper addresses the Microarray Gene Ordering problem. It consists in ordering a set of genes, grouping together the ones with similar behavior. This behavior can be measured ...
Alexandre Mendes, Carlos Cotta, Vinícius Ga...