Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon. com, one of
the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant …

Cilk (pronounced “silk”) is a C-based runtime system for multi-threaded parallel
programming. In this paper, we document the efficiency of the Cilk work-stealing scheduler …

We describe Charm++, an object oriented portable parallel programming language based
on Cff. Its design philosophy, implementation, sample applications and their performance on …

NAMD is a molecular dynamics program designed for high performance simulations of large
biomolecular systems on parallel computers. An object-oriented design imple mented using …

Depth from Focus (DFF) and Depth from Defocus (DFD) methods are theoretically unified
with the geometric triangulation principle. Fundamentally, the depth sensitivities of DFF and …

Building future generation supercomputers while constraining their power consumption is
one of the biggest challenges faced by the HPC community. For example, US Department of …

For the past decade, we have been develo** a parallel programming model based on
virtualization. The basic idea is simple: let the programmer divide the work into a large …

Load Balancing in Parallel Computers: Theory and Practice is about the essential software
technique of load balancing in distributed memory message-passing parallel computers …

HPC applications are increasingly being used in academia and laboratories for scientific
research and in industries for business and analytics. Cloud computing offers the benefits of …

Data-Parallel Programming demonstrates that architecture-independent parallel
programming is possible by describing in detail how programs written in a high-level SIMD …