The growth in the number of generally available, distributed, heterogeneous computing
systems places increasing importance on the development of user-friendly tools that enable …

Application developers and end-users of high performance computing sys-4 tems have
today access to larger machines and more processors than ever 5 before. High-end systems …

The main goal of Grid programming is the study of programming models, tools, and methods
that support the effective development of portable and high-performance algorithms and …

The message passing interface (MPI) is a standard used by many parallel scientific
applications. It offers the advantage of a smoother migration path for porting applications …

In this paper we have described a dynamic programming algorithm to compute k non-
intersecting near-optimal alignments in linear space. In order to reduce its runtime …

The message passing interface (MPI) is a standard used by many scientific applications. It
has the advantage of a smoother migration path for porting applications to the Grid. In this …

Abstract llc is a language designed to extend OpenMP to distributed memory systems. Work
in progress on the implementation of a compiler that translates llc code and targets …

Distributing an application onto several machines is one of the key aspects of Grid-
computing. In the last few years several groups have developed solutions for the occurring …

Adapting to the network is the key to achieving high performance for communication-
intensive applications, including scientific computing, data intensive computing, and …

Understanding the measured performance of parallel applications in real systems is difficult—
with the aim to utilize the resources available, optimizations deployed in hardware and …