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HPDC
1998
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
WebOS: Operating System Services for Wide Area Applications
In this paper, we argue for the power of providing a common set of OS services to wide area applications, including mechanisms for resource discovery, a global namespace, remote p...
Amin Vahdat, Thomas E. Anderson, Michael Dahlin, E...
IPPS
1998
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Predicting the Running Times of Parallel Programs by Simulation
Predicting the running time of a parallel program is useful for determining the optimal values for the parameters of the implementation and the optimal mapping of data on processo...
Radu Rugina, Klaus E. Schauser
ASPLOS
1998
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Overlapping Execution with Transfer Using Non-Strict Execution for Mobile Programs
In order to execute a program on a remote computer, it must first be transferred over a network. This transmission incurs the overhead of network latency before execution can beg...
Chandra Krintz, Brad Calder, Han Bok Lee, Benjamin...
IPPS
1997
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Optimizing Parallel Bitonic Sort
Sorting is an important component of many applications, and parallel sorting algorithms have been studied extensively in the last three decades. One of the earliest parallel sorti...
Mihai F. Ionescu
PG
1997
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Real-time virtual humans
The last few years have seen great maturationin the computation speed and control methods needed to portray 3D virtualhumanssuitableforreal interactiveapplications. We first desc...
Norman I. Badler