Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently received delivery of a 5,294 processor Cray XT3. The XT3 is Cray’s third-generation massively parallel processing system. The system build...
Jeffrey S. Vetter, Sadaf R. Alam, Thomas H. Duniga...
Recently there has been renewed interest in building reliable servers that support continuous application operation. Besides maintaining system state consistent after a failure, o...
We describe Chromium, a system for manipulating streams of graphics API commands on clusters of workstations. Chromium's stream filters can be arranged to create sort-first a...
Greg Humphreys, Mike Houston, Ren Ng, Randall Fran...
The application of hardware-parameterized models to distributed systems can result in omission of key bottlenecks such as the full cost of inter-node communication in a shared mem...
—Memory bandwidth has always been a critical factor for the performance of many data intensive applications. The increasing processor performance, and the advert of single chip m...
Felipe Cabarcas, Alejandro Rico, Yoav Etsion, Alex...