A comparative study of parallel metaheuristics executed in grid environments is proposed, having as case study a genetic algorithm, a simulated annealing algorithm and a random se...
DNA sequence alignment is a very important problem in bioinformatics. The algorithm proposed by Smith-Waterman (SW) is an exact method that obtains optimal local alignments in qua...
Azzedine Boukerche, Jan Mendonca Correa, Alba Cris...
Driven by the increasing componentization of scientific codes, the deployment of high-end system infrastructures such as the Grid, and the desire to support high level problem so...
Pilsung Kang 0002, Mike Heffner, Joy Mukherjee, Na...
— We consider memory subsystem optimizations for improving the performance of sparse scientific computation while reducing the power consumed by the CPU and memory. We first co...
Multi-core processors are a shift of paradigm in computer architecture that promises a dramatic increase in performance. But multi-core processors also bring an unprecedented leve...
Oreste Villa, Daniele Paolo Scarpazza, Fabrizio Pe...