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Future applications demand more performance, but technology advances have been faltering. A promising approach to further improve computer system performance under energy constraints is to employ hardware accelerators. Already today, mobile…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Mark D. Hill , Vijay Janapa Reddi

Parallel batched data structures are designed to process synchronized batches of operations in a parallel computing model. In this paper, we propose parallel combining, a technique that implements a concurrent data structure from a parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Vitaly Aksenov , Petr Kuznetsov , Anatoly Shalyto

We revisit parallel-innermost term rewriting as a model of parallel computation on inductive data structures and provide a corresponding notion of runtime complexity parametric in the size of the start term. We propose automatic techniques…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Thaïs Baudon , Carsten Fuhs , Laure Gonnord

The maximum labelled clique problem is a variant of the maximum clique problem where edges in the graph are given labels, and we are not allowed to use more than a certain number of distinct labels in a solution. We introduce a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Ciaran McCreesh , Patrick Prosser

The advent of high performance computing (HPC) and graphics processing units (GPU), present an enormous computation resource for Large data transactions (big data) that require parallel processing for robust and prompt data analysis. While…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Kato Mivule , Benjamin Harvey , Crystal Cobb , Hoda El Sayed

A periodic temporal graph, in its simplest form, is a graph in which every edge appears exactly once in the first $\Delta$ time steps, and then it reappears recurrently every $\Delta$ time steps, where $\Delta$ is a given period length.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-22 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Nils Morawietz , Paul G. Spirakis

Modern embedded systems have made the transition from single-core to multi-core architectures, providing performance improvement via parallelism rather than higher clock frequencies. DAGs are considered among the most generic task models in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-05 José Marinho , Stefan M. Petters

We study the classical scheduling problem on parallel machines %with precedence constraints where the precedence graph has the bounded depth $h$. Our goal is to minimize the maximum completion time. We focus on developing approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

In the past, efforts were taken to improve the performance of a processor via frequency scaling. However, industry has reached the limits of increasing the frequency and therefore concurrent execution of instructions on multiple cores seems…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Irfan Uddin

This paper introduces a novel, fast atomic-snapshot protocol for asynchronous message-passing systems. In the process of defining what ``fast'' means exactly, we spot a few interesting issues that arise when conventional time metrics are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-19 João Paulo Bezerra , Luciano Freitas , Petr Kuznetsov , Matthieu Rambaud

Dynamic Parallelism (DP) is a runtime feature of the GPU programming model that allows GPU threads to execute additional GPU kernels, recursively. Apart from making the programming of parallel hierarchical patterns easier, DP can also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Felipe A. Quezada , Cristóbal A. Navarro , Miguel Romero , Cristhian Aguilera

Effective static analyses have been proposed which infer bounds on the number of resolutions or reductions. These have the advantage of being independent from the platform on which the programs are executed and have been shown to be useful…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Edison Mera , Pedro Lopez-Garcia , German Puebla , Manuel Carro , Manuel Hermenegildo

This paper presents an acceleration framework for packing linear programming problems where the amount of data available is limited, i.e., where the number of constraints m is small compared to the variable dimension n. The framework can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-20 Palma London , Shai Vardi , Adam Wierman , Hanling Yi

Developing an efficient server-based real-time scheduling solution that supports dynamic task-level parallelism is now relevant to even the desktop and embedded domains and no longer only to the high performance computing market niche. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-15 Luís Nogueira , Luís Miguel Pinho

We investigate the global scheduling of sporadic, implicit deadline, real-time task systems on multiprocessor platforms. We provide a task model which integrates job parallelism. We prove that the time-complexity of the feasibility problem…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2008-05-22 S. Collette , L. Cucu , J. Goossens

An excited random walk is a non-Markovian extension of the simple random walk, in which the walk's behavior at time $n$ is impacted by the path it has taken up to time $n$. The properties of an excited random walk are more difficult to…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Mike Cinkoske , Joe Jackson , Claire Plunkett

Cycles are one of the fundamental subgraph patterns and being able to enumerate them in graphs enables important applications in a wide variety of fields, including finance, biology, chemistry, and network science. However, to enable cycle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jovan Blanuša , Kubilay Atasu , Paolo Ienne

Massively parallel hardware (GPUs) and long sequence data have made parallel algorithms essential for machine learning at scale. Yet dynamical systems, like recurrent neural networks and Markov chain Monte Carlo, were thought to suffer from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Xavier Gonzalez

In this paper, we prove the existence of a phase transition of parallelizability in the assembly of one-dimensional chains. By introducing the parallel efficiency that measures how efficiently the parallel assembly works, the parallelizable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-01 Ikumi Kobayashi , Shin-ichi Sasa

Parallel computing plays a major role in almost all the fields from research to major concern problem solving purposes. Many researches are till now focusing towards the area of parallel processing. Nowadays it extends its usage towards the…

Performance · Computer Science 2010-03-23 A. Neela Madheswari , R. S. D. Wahida Banu