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The paper presents a simple derivation of the Gustafson-Barsis law from the Amdahl's law. In the computer literature these two laws describing the speedup limits of parallel applications are derived separately. It is shown, that treating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Andrzej Karbowski

Running parallel applications requires special and expensive processing resources to obtain the required results within a reasonable time. Before parallelizing serial applications, some analysis is recommended to be carried out to decide…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-03-30 Alaa Ismail Elnashar

Pre-exascale High Performance Computers (HPC) can reach more than 400 Pflop/s real perfor-mance according the HPLinpack benchmarks. For nanoscience and quantum biology there are requirements for those program codes based on quantum physics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Mindaugas Macernis , Vaidotas Mickus , Janne Ahonen , Laurynas Diska , Jonas Franukevicius , Juozas Sulskus

The number of triangles in a graph is a fundamental metric, used in social network analysis, link classification and recommendation, and more. Driven by these applications and the trend that modern graph datasets are both large and dynamic,…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-08-12 Kanat Tangwongsan , A. Pavan , Srikanta Tirthapura

The aim of parallel computing is to increase an application performance by executing the application on multiple processors. OpenMP is an API that supports multi platform shared memory programming model and shared-memory programs are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Vibha Rajput , Alok Katiyar

The ability to learn new tasks and generalize performance to others is one of the most remarkable characteristics of the human brain and of recent AI systems. The ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously is also a signature…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-11 Giovanni Petri , Sebastian Musslick , Biswadip Dey , Kayhan Ozcimder , David Turner , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Theodore Willke , Jonathan D. Cohen

We consider an asynchronous system with transitions corresponding to the instructions of a computer system. For each instruction, a runtime is given. We propose a mathematical model, allowing us to construct an algorithm for finding the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Ahmet A. Husainov , E. S. Kudryashova

Recent years have witnessed the surge of asynchronous parallel (async-parallel) iterative algorithms due to problems involving very large-scale data and a large number of decision variables. Because of asynchrony, the iterates are computed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Zhimin Peng , Yangyang Xu , Ming Yan , Wotao Yin

Asynchronous iterations are more and more investigated for both scaling and fault-resilience purpose on high performance computing platforms. While so far, they have been exclusively applied within space domain decomposition frameworks,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Frederic Magoules , Guillaume Gbikpi-Benissan

This paper studies the response time bound of a DAG (directed acyclic graph) task. Recently, the idea of using multiple paths to bound the response time of a DAG task, instead of using a single longest path in previous results, was proposed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Qingqiang He , Nan Guan , Shuai Zhao , Mingsong Lv

In the federated scheduling approaches in multiprocessor systems, a task either 1) is restricted to execute sequentially on a single processor or 2) has exclusive access to the assigned processors. There have been several positive results…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Jian-Jia Chen

We suggest a general oracle-based framework that captures different parallel stochastic optimization settings described by a dependency graph, and derive generic lower bounds in terms of this graph. We then use the framework and derive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Blake Woodworth , Jialei Wang , Adam Smith , Brendan McMahan , Nathan Srebro

Indices of acceptability are well suited to frame the axiomatic features of many performance measures, associated to terminal random cash flows.We extend this notion to classes of c\`adl\`ag processes modelling cash flows over a fixed…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-11-07 Christos E. Kountzakis , Damiano Rossello

State-of-the-art machine learning frameworks support a wide variety of design features to enable a flexible machine learning programming interface and to ease the programmability burden on machine learning developers. Identifying and using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Yu Emma Wang , Carole-Jean Wu , Xiaodong Wang , Kim Hazelwood , David Brooks

Computation of optimal cycle mean in a directed weighted graph has many applications in program analysis, performance verification in particular. In this paper we propose a data-parallel algorithmic solution to the problem and show how the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-04 Jiří Barnat , Petr Bauch , Luboš Brim , Milan Češka

In recent works, we have proposed a stochastic cellular automaton model of traffic flow connecting two exactly solvable stochastic processes, i.e., the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process and the Zero Range Process, with an additional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-19 Masahiro Kanai , Katsuhiro Nishinari , Tetsuji Tokihiro

Real-time systems increasingly use multicore processors in order to satisfy thermal, power, and computational requirements. To exploit the architectural parallelism offered by the multicore processors, parallel task models, scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Niklas Ueter , Mario Günzel , Jian-Jia Chen

Pipeline parallelism enables training models that exceed single-device memory, but practical throughput remains limited by pipeline bubbles. Although parameter freezing can improve training throughput by adaptively skipping backward…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Seonghye Cho , Jaemin Han , Hyunjin Kim , Euisoo Jung , Jae-Gil Lee

Asynchronous parallel implementations of stochastic gradient (SG) have been broadly used in solving deep neural network and received many successes in practice recently. However, existing theories cannot explain their convergence and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-22 Xiangru Lian , Yijun Huang , Yuncheng Li , Ji Liu

There are billions of lines of sequential code inside nowadays' software which do not benefit from the parallelism available in modern multicore architectures. Automatically parallelizing sequential code, to promote an efficient use of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Alcides Fonseca , Bruno Cabral , João Rafael , Ivo Correia