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3Thomas Fahringer, Eduard Mehofer Buffer-Safe Communication Optimization Based on Data Flow Analysis and Performance Prediction. Search on Bibsonomy IEEE PACT The full citation details ... 1997 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF Communication, Performance Prediction, Data Flow Analysis, Communication Optimization
2Hiroshige Hayashizaki, Yutaka Sugawara, Mary Inaba, Kei Hiraki MCAMP: communication optimization on massively parallel machines with hierarchical scratch-pad memory. Search on Bibsonomy PACT The full citation details ... 2008 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF GRAPE-DR, copy candidates, scratch-pad memory management, memory hierarchy, massively parallel architecture
2Ryan Kastner, Wenrui Gong, Xin Hao, Forrest Brewer, Adam Kaplan, Philip Brisk, Majid Sarrafzadeh Layout driven data communication optimization for high level synthesis. Search on Bibsonomy DATE The full citation details ... 2006 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
2Chao Huang, Gengbin Zheng, Laxmikant V. Kalé, Sameer Kumar Performance evaluation of adaptive MPI. Search on Bibsonomy PPOPP The full citation details ... 2006 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF processor virtualization, adaptivity, load balancing, MPI, communication optimization
2Minyi Guo, Yi Pan, Zhen Liu Symbolic Communication Set Generation for Irregular Parallel Applications. Search on Bibsonomy The Journal of Supercomputing The full citation details ... 2003 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF irregular array references, distributed memory multicomputers compile-time optimization, parallelizing compilers, communication optimization, symbolic analysis
2Ming Zhu, Wentong Cai, Bu-Sung Lee Key Message Algorithm: A Communication Optimization Algorithm in Cluster-Based Parallel Computing. Search on Bibsonomy IWCC The full citation details ... 1999 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF Priority-based Communication, Network of Workstations, Communication Optimization, Critical Path, Parallel and Distributed Processing
2Joseph E. Flaherty, R. M. Loy, P. C. Scully, Mark S. Shephard, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, James D. Teresco, Louis H. Ziantz Load Balancing and Communication Optimization for Parallel Adaptive Finite Element Methods (Invited Paper). (PDF / PS) Search on Bibsonomy SCCC The full citation details ... 1997 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF predictive load balancing schemes, parallel adaptive finite element methods, finite element mesh data, processor load imbalances, adaptive enrichment steps, message passing library extension, a priori estimates, work load, enrichment efficiency, balancing time, compressible flow problems, predictive load balancing, IBM SP2 computer, transient solution, three dimensional Euler equations, parallel algorithms, load balancing, parallel computation, data structures, distributed storage, communication optimization, adaptive refinement, mesh adaptation
2William Pugh, Evan Rosser Iteration Space Slicing and Its Application to Communication Optimization. Search on Bibsonomy International Conference on Supercomputing The full citation details ... 1997 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF message coalescing, program slicing, communication optimization, latency tolerance
2Vincent Loechner, Catherine Mongenet Solutions to the Communication Minimization Problem for Affine Recurrence Equations. Search on Bibsonomy Euro-Par The full citation details ... 1997 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF automatic parallelization techniques, system of recurrence equations, communication optimization
2Saman P. Amarasinghe, Monica S. Lam Communication Optimization and Code Generation for Distributed Memory Machines. Search on Bibsonomy PLDI The full citation details ... 1993 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Ching-Hsien Hsu, Peter M. A. Sloot Editorial: communication optimization for scalable parallel system. Search on Bibsonomy The Journal of Supercomputing The full citation details ... 2012 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Andrew Friedley, Andrew Lumsdaine Communication Optimization Beyond MPI. Search on Bibsonomy IPDPS Workshops The full citation details ... 2011 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Li-Yung Ho, Jan-Jan Wu, Pangfeng Liu Optimal Algorithms for Cross-Rack Communication Optimization in MapReduce Framework. Search on Bibsonomy IEEE CLOUD The full citation details ... 2011 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF MapReduce optimization, cross-rack communication, network load balancing, cloud computing, optimal algorithm
1Karel Stanek, Lucie Friedmannová, Petr Kubícek, Milan Konecný Selected issues of cartographic communication optimization for emergency centers. Search on Bibsonomy Int. J. Digital Earth The full citation details ... 2010 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Mateusz Guzek, Johnatan E. Pecero, Bernabé Dorronsoro, Pascal Bouvry, Samee Ullah Khan A Cellular Genetic Algorithm for scheduling applications and energy-aware communication optimization. Search on Bibsonomy HPCS The full citation details ... 2010 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Torsten Hoefler, Jesper Larsson Träff Sparse collective operations for MPI. Search on Bibsonomy IPDPS The full citation details ... 2009 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Daeho Seo, Mithuna Thottethodi Disjoint-path routing: Efficient communication for streaming applications. Search on Bibsonomy IPDPS The full citation details ... 2009 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Krunal Soni, Nisreen Cain, Edward Luke Work Replication: A Communication Optimization in Loci. Search on Bibsonomy ISCA PDCCS The full citation details ... 2008 DBLP  BibTeX  RDF
1Peter H. Feiler Efficient Embedded Runtime Systems through Port Communication Optimization. Search on Bibsonomy ICECCS The full citation details ... 2008 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Torsten Hoefler, Maraike Schellmann, Sergei Gorlatch, Andrew Lumsdaine Communication Optimization for Medical Image Reconstruction Algorithms. Search on Bibsonomy PVM/MPI The full citation details ... 2008 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Changjun Hu, Yewei Shao, Jue Wang, Jianjiang Li Automatic Transformation for Overlapping Communication and Computation. Search on Bibsonomy NPC The full citation details ... 2008 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF Parallel compiling, Communication optimization, Control-flow analysis, Source-to-source transformation
1Seung-Jai Min, Rudolf Eigenmann Optimizing irregular shared-memory applications for clusters. Search on Bibsonomy ICS The full citation details ... 2008 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF irregular data accesses, runtime technique, performance, MPI, openMP, compiler analysis
1Shin'ichi Miura, Taisuke Boku, Takayuki Okamoto, Toshihiro Hanawa A dynamic routing control system for high-performance PC cluster with multi-path Ethernet connection. Search on Bibsonomy IPDPS The full citation details ... 2008 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Eryk Laskowski, Marek Tudruj Inter-processor Communication Optimization in Dynamically Reconfigurable Embedded Parallel Systems. Search on Bibsonomy PPAM The full citation details ... 2007 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Qiankun Miao, Guangzhong Sun, Jiulong Shan, Guoliang Chen Single Data Copying for MPI Communication Optimization on Shared Memory System. Search on Bibsonomy International Conference on Computational Science The full citation details ... 2007 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Xuerong Gong, Linsheng Lu, Rongcai Zhao Communication Optimization Algorithms based on Extend Data Flow Graph. Search on Bibsonomy SNPD The full citation details ... 2007 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Chunli Dong, Rongcai Zhao, Zhuojie Ma, Donghong Li Communication Optimization on Automatic Program Parallelization. Search on Bibsonomy SNPD The full citation details ... 2007 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Hideo Saito, Kenjiro Taura Locality-aware connection management and rank assignment for wide-area MPI. Search on Bibsonomy PPOPP The full citation details ... 2007 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF connection establishment, rank assignment, adaptivity, grid, MPI, message passing, communication optimization
1Sumir Chandra, Xiaolin Li 0001, Taher Saif, Manish Parashar Enabling scalable parallel implementations of structured adaptive mesh refinement applications. Search on Bibsonomy The Journal of Supercomputing The full citation details ... 2007 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF SAMR scalability, Bin-packing based load-balancing, MPI non-blocking communication optimization, 3-D Richtmyer-Meshkov application, Structured adaptive mesh refinement, Hierarchical partitioning
1Adam Smyk, Marek Tudruj Hierarchical Optimization of the Parallel FDTD Computations Based on the Macro Data Flow Graph Paradigm. Search on Bibsonomy ISPDC The full citation details ... 2007 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Fábio Reis Cecin, Jorge Luis Victória Barbosa, Cláudio Fernando Resin Geyer A communication optimization for conservative interactive simulators. Search on Bibsonomy IEEE Communications Letters The full citation details ... 2006 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Daniel G. Chavarría-Miranda, Jarek Nieplocha, Vinod Tipparaju Topology-aware tile mapping for clusters of SMPs. Search on Bibsonomy Conf. Computing Frontiers The full citation details ... 2006 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF communication optimization, topology awareness, clusters of SMPs, data layout optimization
1Lorna Smith, Mark Bull, Alan Gray, Joachim Hein M05 - Application performance on the Blue Gene architecture. Search on Bibsonomy SC The full citation details ... 2006 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Valérie Fiolet, Eryk Laskowski, Richard Olejnik, Lukasz Masko, Bernard Toursel, Marek Tudruj Optimizing Distributed Data Mining Applications Based on Object Clustering Methods. Search on Bibsonomy PARELEC The full citation details ... 2006 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Changjun Hu, Jing Li, Jue Wang, Yonghong Li, Liang Ding, Jianjiang Li Communication Generation for Irregular Parallel Applications. Search on Bibsonomy PARELEC The full citation details ... 2006 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Adam Smyk, Marek Tudruj Parallel FDTD Computations Optimized by Program Macro Data Flow Graph Redeployment. Search on Bibsonomy PARELEC The full citation details ... 2006 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Eric Hung-Yu Tseng, Jean-Luc Gaudiot Automatic Array Partitioning Based on the Smith Normal Form. Search on Bibsonomy International Journal of Parallel Programming The full citation details ... 2005 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF Data partitioning, communication optimization, parallel loop, Smith-normal-form
1Hanping Lufei, Weisong Shi Fractal: A Mobile Code Based Framework for Dynamic Application Protocol Adaptation in Pervasive Computing. Search on Bibsonomy IPDPS The full citation details ... 2005 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Adam Smyk, Marek Tudruj Profiling Macro Data Flow Graphs for Parallel Implementation of FDTD Computations. Search on Bibsonomy ISPDC The full citation details ... 2005 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Haifang Zhou, Yu Tang, Xuejun Yang, Hengzhu Liu A Proposal of Parallel Strategy for Global Wavelet-Based Registration of Remote-Sensing Images. Search on Bibsonomy ICA3PP The full citation details ... 2005 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Adam Smyk, Marek Tudruj Optimization of Parallel FDTD Computations Based on Structural Redeployment of Macro Data Flow Nodes. Search on Bibsonomy PPAM The full citation details ... 2005 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Xiaobing Feng 0002, Li Chen, Yiran Wang, Xiao-Mi An, Lin Ma, Chun-Lei Sang, Zhaoqing Zhang Integrating Parallelizing Compilation Technologies for SMP Clusters. Search on Bibsonomy J. Comput. Sci. Technol. The full citation details ... 2005 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF optimization, compiler, parallel system
1Ioan Cimpian, Alexandru Turjan, Ed F. Deprettere, Erwin A. de Kock Communication Optimization in Compaan Process Networks. Search on Bibsonomy SAMOS The full citation details ... 2004 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Dongkun Shin, Jihong Kim Power-aware communication optimization for networks-on-chips with voltage scalable links. Search on Bibsonomy CODES+ISSS The full citation details ... 2004 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF real-time systems, network-on-chip, low-power design
1Minyi Guo Automatic Parallelization and Optimization for Irregular Scientific Applications. Search on Bibsonomy IPDPS The full citation details ... 2004 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF Irregular scientific application, Interprocedural optimization, OpenMP, Parallelizing compilers, Loop transformation, Communication optimization, Loop partitioning
1Weisong Shi, Sharun Santhosh, Hanping Lufei Cegor: An Adaptive Distributed File System for Heterogeneous Network Environments. Search on Bibsonomy ICPADS The full citation details ... 2004 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Fumihiko Ino, Kenichi Hagihara A Performance Analysis Tool for Performance Debugging of Message Passing Parallel Programs. Search on Bibsonomy ICPP Workshops The full citation details ... 2004 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Hanping Lufei, Weisong Shi, Lucia Zamorano On the Effects of Bandwidth Reduction Techniques in Distributed Applications. Search on Bibsonomy EUC The full citation details ... 2004 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Daniel Cociorva, Xiaoyang Gao, Sandhya Krishnan, Gerald Baumgartner, Chi-Chung Lam, P. Sadayappan, J. Ramanujam Global Communication Optimization for Tensor Contraction Expressions under Memory Constraints. Search on Bibsonomy IPDPS The full citation details ... 2003 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Xin Yuan, Rami G. Melhem, Rajiv Gupta Algorithms for Supporting Compiled Communication. Search on Bibsonomy IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. The full citation details ... 2003 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF Compiled communication, compilation techniques for distributed memory machines, communication optimization, all-optical networks
1Ming Zhu, Wentong Cai, Bu-Sung Lee Key Message Approach to Optimize Communication of Parallel Applications on Clusters. Search on Bibsonomy Cluster Computing The full citation details ... 2003 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF Key Message approach, network load manager/agent, parallel programming, cluster computing, communication optimization
1Emmanuel Cecchet, Julie Marguerite, Willy Zwaenepoel Performance and scalability of EJB applications. Search on Bibsonomy OOPSLA The full citation details ... 2002 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF EJB container design, performance, scalability, profiling, communication optimization
1Minyi Guo, Weng-Long Chang, Yi Pan Optimization Techniques for Parallel Codes of Irregular Scientific Computations. Search on Bibsonomy ICPP Workshops The full citation details ... 2002 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF Irregular scientific application, Interprocedural optimization, Parallelizing compilers, Loop transformation, Communication optimization, Loop partitioning
1Francis C. M. Lau, Shi-Heng Zhang Fast Gossiping in Square Meshes/Tori with Bounded-Size Packets. Search on Bibsonomy IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. The full citation details ... 2002 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF scheduling, parallel algorithms, interconnection networks, gossiping, collective communication, communication optimization, all-to-all broadcast, total exchange
1Gary M. Zoppetti, Gagan Agrawal, Rishi Kumar Compiler and Runtime Support for Irregular Reductions on a Multithreaded Architecture. (PDF / PS) Search on Bibsonomy IPDPS The full citation details ... 2002 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Dong Zhou, Karsten Schwan Eager Handlers: Communication Optimization in Java-based Distributed Applications with Fine-grained Code Migration. Search on Bibsonomy IPDPS The full citation details ... 2001 DBLP  BibTeX  RDF
1Hong Tang, Tao Yang Optimizing threaded MPI execution on SMP clusters. Search on Bibsonomy ICS The full citation details ... 2001 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF MPI, multi-threading, communication optimization, SMP clusters
1Vincent Loechner, Catherine Mongenet Communication Optimization for Affine Recurrence Equations Using Broadcast and Locality. Search on Bibsonomy International Journal of Parallel Programming The full citation details ... 2000 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Ming Zhu Modeling Performance Analysis of a Communication Optimization Scheme in Network-based Distributed Computing. Search on Bibsonomy PDPTA The full citation details ... 2000 DBLP  BibTeX  RDF
1Ming Zhu, Wentong Cai, Bu-Sung Lee Performance Evaluation of a Communication Optimization Model in Network-Based Parallel Computing. (PDF / PS) Search on Bibsonomy ICPP Workshops The full citation details ... 2000 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Kenjiro Taura, Andrew A. Chien A Heuristic Algorithm for Mapping Communicating Tasks on Heterogeneous Resources. (PDF / PS) Search on Bibsonomy Heterogeneous Computing Workshop The full citation details ... 2000 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF task scheduling, graph partitioning, communication optimization, global computing
1Sumeer Bhola, Mustaque Ahamad 1/k phase stamping for continuous shared data (extended abstract). Search on Bibsonomy PODC The full citation details ... 2000 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Thomas Fahringer, Eduard Mehofer Buffer-Safe and Cost-Driven Communication Optimization. Search on Bibsonomy J. Parallel Distrib. Comput. The full citation details ... 1999 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Mahmut T. Kandemir, Prithviraj Banerjee, Alok N. Choudhary, J. Ramanujam, U. Nagaraj Shenoy A global communication optimization technique based on data-flow analysis and linear algebra. Search on Bibsonomy ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. The full citation details ... 1999 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF message vectorization, parallelism, global optimizations, data-flow analysis, communication optimizations, distributed-memory machines
1James B. Fenwick Jr., Lori L. Pollock Tuple Counting Data Flow Analysis and its Use in Communication Optimization. Search on Bibsonomy HPCN The full citation details ... 1999 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Lutz Prechelt Exploiting Domain-Specific Properties: Compiling Parallel Dynamic Neural Network Algorithms into Efficient Code. Search on Bibsonomy IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. The full citation details ... 1999 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF high-level parallel language, Compiler optimizations, communication optimization, dynamic data structures, irregular problems
1Zdzislaw Szczerbinski Forward Dependence Folding as a Method of Communication Optimization in SPMD Programs. Search on Bibsonomy PARA The full citation details ... 1998 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Mahmut T. Kandemir, Prithviraj Banerjee, Alok N. Choudhary, J. Ramanujam, U. Nagaraj Shenoy A Generalized Framework for Global Communication Optimization. (PDF / PS) Search on Bibsonomy IPPS/SPDP The full citation details ... 1998 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Thomas Fahringer, Eduard Mehofer Problem and Machine Sensitive Communication Optimization. Search on Bibsonomy International Conference on Supercomputing The full citation details ... 1998 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Yingchun Zhu, Laurie J. Hendren Communication Optimizations for Parallel C Programs. Search on Bibsonomy PLDI The full citation details ... 1998 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF Parallel C
1Xin Yuan, Rajiv Gupta, Rami G. Melhem Demand-Driven Data Flow Analysis for Communication Optimization. Search on Bibsonomy Parallel Processing Letters The full citation details ... 1997 DBLP  BibTeX  RDF
1Ken Hines, Gaetano Borriello Optimizing communication in embedded system co-simulation. Search on Bibsonomy CODES The full citation details ... 1997 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF Pia hardware-software co-simulator, communication routines, communication transaction annotations, embedded system co-simulation, platform independent language, system components, annotations, optimisation, speedups, communication optimization, communication channels, automatic tools
1Tao Yang, Cong Fu Heuristic Algorithms for Scheduling Iterative Task Computations on Distributed Memory Machines. Search on Bibsonomy IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. The full citation details ... 1997 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF iterative task graphs, Scheduling, directed acyclic graphs, software pipelining, granularity, communication optimization
1Laurent Freund, Denis Dupont, Michel Israël, Frédéric Rousseau Interface Optimization During Hardware-Software Partitioning. Search on Bibsonomy CODES The full citation details ... 1997 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF Interface Optimization, Hardware-Software Partitioning
1Xingbin Zhang, Andrew A. Chien Dynamic Pointer Alignment: Tiling and Communication Optimizations for Parallel Pointer-based Computations. Search on Bibsonomy PPOPP The full citation details ... 1997 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Sung-Eun Choi, Lawrence Snyder Quantifying the Effects of Communication Optimizations. (PDF / PS) Search on Bibsonomy ICPP The full citation details ... 1997 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF parallel, compiler, communication optimizations
1Angeles G. Navarro, Emilio L. Zapata, Yunheung Paek, David A. Padua Compiler Techniques for Effective Communication on Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors. (PDF / PS) Search on Bibsonomy ICPP The full citation details ... 1997 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF Parallelization, Compiler, Data Distribution, Communication Analysis
1Michèle Dion Affine Data Mapping with Residual Communication Optimization: Evaluation of Heuristics. Search on Bibsonomy HPCN The full citation details ... 1996 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Arun Venkatachar, J. Ramanujam, Ashwath Thirumalai Generalized Overlap Regions for Communication Optimization in Data-Parallel Programs. Search on Bibsonomy LCPC The full citation details ... 1996 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Jörg Henkel, Rolf Ernst, Ulrich Holtmann, Thomas Benner Adaptation of partitioning and high-level synthesis in hardware/software co-synthesis. Search on Bibsonomy ICCAD The full citation details ... 1994 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF
1Eva Ma, Dennis G. Shea E-Kernel: An Embedding Kernel on the IBM Victor V256 Multiprocessor for Program Mapping and Network Reconfiguration. Search on Bibsonomy IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. The full citation details ... 1994 DBLP  DOI  BibTeX  RDF E-kernel, embedding kernel, IBM victor V256 multiprocessor, program mapping, message-passing partitionable multiprocessor, new network topology, 2D mesh network, task graph topologies, communication network topology, real-time systems, parallel programming, graph theory, message passing, multiprocessing systems, parallel system, task graph, program diagnostics, communication model, asymptotically optimal, reconfigured network, network reconfiguration
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