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Motivated by modern parallel computing applications, we consider the problem of scheduling parallel-task jobs with heterogeneous resource requirements in a cluster of machines. Each job consists of a set of tasks that can be processed in…

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This paper studies the hierarchical clustering problem, where the goal is to produce a dendrogram that represents clusters at varying scales of a data set. We propose the ParChain framework for designing parallel hierarchical agglomerative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Shangdi Yu , Yiqiu Wang , Yan Gu , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

Traditional heterogeneous parallel algorithms, designed for heterogeneous clusters of workstations, are based on the assumption that the absolute speed of the processors does not depend on the size of the computational task. This assumption…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-15 Alexey Lastovetsky , Ravi Reddy , Vladimir Rychkov , David Clarke

We study the percolation properties of the growing clusters model. In this model, a number of seeds placed on random locations on a lattice are allowed to grow with a constant velocity to form clusters. When two or more clusters eventually…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Nikolaos Tsakiris , Michail Maragakis , Kosmas Kosmidis , Panos Argyrakis

The standard kinetic Monte Carlo algorithm is an extremely efficient method to carry out serial simulations of dynamical processes such as thin-film growth. However, in some cases it is necessary to study systems over extended time and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunsic Shim , Jacques G. Amar

With the growing model size, deep neural networks (DNN) are increasingly trained over massive GPU accelerators, which demands a proper parallelization plan that transforms a DNN model into fine-grained tasks and then schedules them to GPUs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Zhiqi Lin , Youshan Miao , Guodong Liu , Xiaoxiang Shi , Quanlu Zhang , Fan Yang , Saeed Maleki , Yi Zhu , Xu Cao , Cheng Li , Mao Yang , Lintao Zhang , Lidong Zhou

We report on an experimental investigation into opportunities for parallelism in beliefnet inference. Specifically, we report on a study performed of the available parallelism, on hypercube style machines, of a set of randomly generated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Bruce D'Ambrosio , Tony Fountain , Zhaoyu Li

The recent Natural Language Processing techniques have been refreshing the state-of-the-art performance at an incredible speed. Training huge language models is therefore an imperative demand in both industry and academy. However, huge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Zhengda Bian , Qifan Xu , Boxiang Wang , Yang You

Large-scale optimization problems that involve thousands of decision variables have extensively arisen from various industrial areas. As a powerful optimization tool for many real-world applications, evolutionary algorithms (EAs) fail to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Peng Yang , Ke Tang , Xin Yao

To design efficient parallel algorithms, some recent papers showed that many sequential iterative algorithms can be directly parallelized but there are still challenges in achieving work-efficiency and high-parallelism. Work-efficiency can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Zheqi Shen , Zijin Wan , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

In the recent decade companies started collecting of large amount of data. Without a proper analyse, the data are usually useless. The field of analysing the data is called data mining. Unfortunately, the amount of data is quite large: the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Robert Kessl

This paper presents new parallel algorithms for generating Euclidean minimum spanning trees and spatial clustering hierarchies (known as HDBSCAN$^*$). Our approach is based on generating a well-separated pair decomposition followed by using…

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This paper presents the design and analysis of parallel approximation algorithms for facility-location problems, including $\NC$ and $\RNC$ algorithms for (metric) facility location, $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means. These problems…

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We study numerically a model of nonequilibrium networks where nodes and links are added at each time step with aging of nodes and connectivity- and age-dependent attachment of links. By varying the effects of age in the attachment…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nuno Crokidakis , Marcio Argollo de Menezes

The aim of the paper is to introduce general techniques in order to optimize the parallel execution time of sorting on a distributed architectures with processors of various speeds. Such an application requires a partitioning step. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Christophe Cérin , Jean-Christophe Dubacq , Jean-Louis Roch , the SafeScale Collaboration

This work aims to improve the sample efficiency of parallel large-scale ranking and selection (R&S) problems by leveraging correlation information. We modify the commonly used "divide and conquer" framework in parallel computing by adding a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-16 Zishi Zhang , Yijie Peng

The K-Means clustering using LLoyd's algorithm is an iterative approach to partition the given dataset into K different clusters. The algorithm assigns each point to the cluster based on the following objective function \[\ \min…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ashish Srivastava , Mohammed Nawfal

We study the problem of complexity estimation in the context of parallelizing an advanced Branch and Bound-type algorithm over graphical models. The algorithm's pruning power makes load balancing, one crucial element of every distributed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Lars Otten , Rina Dechter

We show that in the construction of continuum equations for competitive growth processes that are a mixture of random deposition and a correlation process, a distinction must be made within a \textit{single universality class} between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kolakowska , M. A. Novotny

Peptide Optimization is a highly complex problem and it takes very long time of computation. This optimization process uses many software applications in a cluster running GNU/Linux Operating System that perform special tasks. The…

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