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Linear algebra algorithms are used widely in a variety of domains, e.g machine learning, numerical physics and video games graphics. For all these applications, loop-level parallelism is required to achieve high performance. However,…

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Modern trends in data collection are bringing current mainstream techniques for database query processing to their limits. Consequently, various novel approaches for efficient query processing are being actively studied. One such approach…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Georg Gottlob , Matthias Lanzinger , Cem Okulmus , Reinhard Pichler

In the realm of big data and machine learning, data-parallel, distributed stochastic algorithms have drawn significant attention in the present days.~While the synchronous versions of these algorithms are well understood in terms of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Atal Narayan Sahu , Aritra Dutta , Aashutosh Tiwari , Peter Richtárik

This article considers the parallel machine scheduling problem with step-deteriorating jobs and sequence-dependent setup times. The objective is to minimize the total tardiness by determining the allocation and sequence of jobs on identical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-06 Peng Guo , Wenming Cheng , Yi Wang

The paper deals with the makespan minimization in the hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with multiprocessor tasks. The hybrid flow shop (HFS) generalizes the classical flow shop processor configuration by replacing each processor…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Adam Janiak , Damian Kowalczyk , Maciej Lichtenstein

In the field of database deduplication, the goal is to find approximately matching records within a database. Blocking is a typical stage in this process that involves cheaply finding candidate pairs of records that are potential matches…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Andrew Borthwick , Stephen Ash , Bin Pang , Shehzad Qureshi , Timothy Jones

Motivated by the need for adaptive, secure and responsive scheduling in a great range of computing applications, including human-centered and time-critical applications, this paper proposes a scheduling framework that seamlessly adds…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Georgios C. Chasparis , Vladimir Janjic , Michael Rossbory

We examine a standard factory scheduling problem with stochastic processing and setup times, minimizing the expectation of the weighted number of tardy jobs. Because the costs of operators in the schedule are stochastic and sequence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Peter R. Wurman , Michael P. Wellman

We describe an approach to parallel graph partitioning that scales to hundreds of processors and produces a high solution quality. For example, for many instances from Walshaw's benchmark collection we improve the best known partitioning.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-04-08 Manuel Holtgrewe , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

Approximation via sampling is a widespread technique whenever exact solutions are too expensive. In this paper, we present techniques for an efficient parallelization of adaptive (a. k. a. progressive) sampling algorithms on multi-threaded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Alexander van der Grinten , Eugenio Angriman , Henning Meyerhenke

The increase in the rate of data is much higher than the increase in the speed of computers, which results in a heavy emphasis on search algorithms in research literature. Searching an item in ordered list is an efficient operation in data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Adnan Saher Mohammed , Şahin Emrah Amrahov , Fatih V. Çelebi

Sorting has been one of the most challenging studied problems in different scientific researches. Although many techniques and algorithms have been proposed on the theory of having efficient parallel sorting implementation, however…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Zahra Khatami , Sungpack Hong , Jinsoo Lee , Siegfried Depner , Hassan Chafi , J. Ramanujam , Hartmut Kaiser

In generating large quantities of DNA data, high-throughput sequencing technologies require advanced bioinformatics infrastructures for efficient data analysis. k-mer counting, the process of quantifying the frequency of fixed-length k DNA…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yifan Li , Giulia Guidi

Hybrid parallelism techniques are essential for efficiently training large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, current automatic parallel planning frameworks often overlook the simultaneous consideration of node heterogeneity and dynamic…

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The applicability of agglomerative clustering, for inferring both hierarchical and flat clustering, is limited by its scalability. Existing scalable hierarchical clustering methods sacrifice quality for speed and often lead to over-merging…

We introduce a data distribution scheme for $\mathcal{H}$-matrices and a distributed-memory algorithm for $\mathcal{H}$-matrix-vector multiplication. Our data distribution scheme avoids an expensive $\Omega(P^2)$ scheduling procedure used…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Yingzhou Li , Jack Poulson , Lexing Ying

To gain a better performance, many researchers put more computing resource into an application. However, in the AI area, there is still a lack of a successful large-scale machine learning training application: The scalability and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Daning Cheng , Hanping Zhang , Fen Xia , Shigang Li , Yunquan Zhang

Finding a maximum or minimum is a fundamental building block in many mathematical models. Compared with classical algorithms, Durr, Hoyer's quantum algorithm (DHA) achieves quadratic speed. However, its key step, the quantum exponential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-22 Yanhu Chen , Shijie Wei , Xiong Gao , Cen Wang , Jian Wu , Hongxiang Guo

Modern societies have developed insatiable demands for more computation capabilities. Exploiting implicit parallelism to provide automatic performance improvement remains a central goal in engineering future general-purpose computing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Sushant Kondguli , Michael Huang

This note recapitulates an algorithmic observation for ordered Depth-First Search (DFS) in directed graphs that immediately leads to a parallel algorithm with linear speed-up for a range of processors for non-sparse graphs. The note extends…

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