Very Large-Scale Systems and Some History
This column briefly introduces the issue's selections and discusses the ACM SIGMICRO's Oral History project.
Systems for Very Large-Scale Computing
This introduction to the special issue discusses the broad range of systems, applications, and architectures common to very large-scale computing and introduces the articles selected for publication.
Overcoming Communication Latency Barriers in Massively Parallel Scientific Computation
- Ron Dror,
- J. P. Grossman,
- Kenneth Mackenzie,
- Brian Towles,
- Edmond Chow,
- John Salmon,
- Cliff Young,
- Joseph Bank,
- Brannon Batson,
- David Shaw,
- Jeffrey S. Kuskin,
- Richard H. Larson,
- Mark A. Moraes,
- David E. Shaw
Anton, a massively parallel special-purpose machine that accelerates molecular dynamics simulations by orders of magnitude, uses a combination of specialized hardware mechanisms and restructured software algorithms to reduce and hide communication ...
CogniServe: Heterogeneous Server Architecture for Large-Scale Recognition
- Ravi Iyer,
- Sadagopan Srinivasan,
- Omesh Tickoo,
- Zhen Fang,
- Rameshkumar Illikkal,
- Steven Zhang,
- Vineet Chadha,
- Paul Stillwell,
- Seung Eun Lee
As smart mobile devices become pervasive, vendors are offering rich features supported by cloud-based servers to enhance the user experience. Such servers implement large-scale computing environments, where target data is compared to a massive preloaded ...
Simulating Whole Supercomputer Applications
Detailed simulations of large scale message-passing interface parallel applications are extremely time consuming and resource intensive. A new methodology that combines signal processing and data mining techniques plus a multilevel simulation reduces ...
Automated Full-System Power Characterization
A new framework automatically generates full-system multicore powermarks, or synthetic programs with desired power characteristics on multicore server platforms. The framework constructs full-system power models with error bounds on the power estimates ...
Energy-Aware Accounting and Billing in Large-Scale Computing Facilities
- Victor Jimenez,
- Francisco Cazorla,
- Roberto Gioiosa,
- Eren Kursun,
- Canturk Isci,
- Alper Buyuktosunoglu,
- Pradip Bose,
- Mateo Valero
Proposals have focused on reducing energy requirements for large-scale computing facilities (LSCFs), but little research has addressed the need for energy-usage-based accounting. Energy-aware accounting and billing benefits LSCF owners and users. This ...
Resource Management on Multicore Systems: The ACTORS Approach
- Enrico Bini,
- Giorgio Buttazzo,
- Johan Eker,
- Stefan Schorr,
- Raphael Guerra,
- Gerhard Fohler,
- Karl-Erik Arzen,
- Vanessa Romero,
- Claudio Scordino
High-performance embedded systems require the execution of many applications on multicore platforms and are subject to stringent restrictions and constraints. The ACTORS project approach provides temporal isolation through resource reservation over a ...
Temperature-Aware Architecture: Lessons and Opportunities
Managing temperature is an important concern in modern processor and other microelectronic chips. This column explores recent lessons and future challenges in temperature-aware design.
The Open Internet Order
This column discusses the Open Internet Access Order adopted by the FCC and debated by both Net neutrality advocates and Tea Party supporters. The author seeks to engage in a considered and grounded discussion of the order and its economic ...