Many seemingly simple questions that individual users face in their daily lives may actually
require substantial number of computing resources to identify the right answers. For …

Challenges related to development, deployment, and maintenance of reusable software for
science are becoming a growing concern. Many scientists' research increasingly depends …

This paper reports a case study of multiprocessor SoC (MPSoC) design of a complex video
encoder, namely OpenDivX. OpenDivX is a popular version of MPEG4. It requires massive …

Cooling energy consumption is one of the most significant parts of total energy consumed by
distributed systems. However, little effort has been spent so far to integrate the cooling …

We present the GPU Module of a Performance Prediction Toolkit developed at Los Alamos
National Laboratory, which enables code developers to efficiently test novel algorithmic …

In recent years many organizations such as, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, have accelerated
the development of their cloud computing ecosystem. This rapid development has created a …

Due to the high complexity of Grid computing systems, experimentation on a real Grid
system is challenging and time consuming. Moreover, deploying a Grid system demands a …

Motivated by the need to emulate workload execution characteristics on high-performance
and distributed heterogeneous resources, we introduce Synapse. Synapse is used as a …

Homogeneous general purpose processors provide flexibility to implement a variety of
applications and facilitate programmability. In contrast, heterogeneous system-on-chips …

The Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum Development and
Educational Resources (CDER) released a PDC guideline in 2012 and soon after …