ICS 1997: Vienna, Austria

ICS '97, Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Supercomputing, July 7-11, 1997, Vienna, Austria. ACM, 1997

ILP and Wide-Busses

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  Jaime H. Moreno, Mayan Moudgill:
  Scalable Instruction-Level Parallelism Through Tree-Instructions. 1-11
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  David López, Mateo Valero, Josep Llosa, Eduard Ayguadé:
  Increasing Memory Bandwidth with Wide Buses: Compiler, Hardware and Performance Trade-Offs. 12-19

Collective I/O

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  Rajesh Bordawekar:
  Implementation of Collective I/O in the Intel Paragon Parallel File System: Initial Experiences. 20-27
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  Ying Chen, Jarek Nieplocha, Ian T. Foster, Marianne Winslett:
  Optimizing Collective I/O Performance on Parallel Computers: A Multisystem Study. 28-35

Applications

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  Graham D. Riley, J. Mark Bull, John R. Gurd:
  Performance Improvement through Overhead Analysis: A Case Study in Molecular Dynamics. 36-43
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  Hyuk-Jae Lee, James P. Robertson, José A. B. Fortes:
  Generalized Cannon's Algorithm for Parallel Matrix Multiplication. 44-51
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  Xian-He Sun, Yu Zhuang:
  A Highly Accurate Fast Solver for Helmholtz Equations. 52-59

Caches

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  Toni Juan, Juan J. Navarro, Olivier Temam:
  Data Caches for Superscalar Processors. 60-67
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  James Dundas, Trevor N. Mudge:
  Improving Data Cache Performance by Pre-Executing Instructions Under a Cache Miss. 68-75
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  Antonio González, Mateo Valero, Nigel P. Topham, Joan-Manuel Parcerisa:
  Eliminating Cache Conflict Misses through XOR-Based Placement Functions. 76-83

Scheduling and Processor Assignment

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  Kevin H. Liu:
  Performance Study on Optimal Processor Assignment in Parallel Relational Databases. 84-91
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  Daniel Andresen, Tao Yang:
  Multiprocessor Scheduling with Client Resources to Improve the Response Time of WWW Applications. 92-99

Parallel Architectures

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  Mangesh Kasbekar, Shailabh Nagar, Anand Sivasubramaniam:
  pSNOW: A Tool to Evaluate Architectural Issues for NOW Environments. 100-107
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  Taisuke Boku, Ken'ichi Itakura, Hiroshi Nakamura, Kisaburo Nakazawa:
  CP-PACS: A Massively Parallel Processor for Large Scale Scientific Calculations. 108-115

Object-Oriented Programming

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  Naohito Sato, Satoshi Matsuoka, Jean-Marc Jézéquel, Akinori Yonezawa:
  A Methodology for Specifying Data Distribution Using Only Standard Object-Oriented Features. 116-123
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  Elizabeth Johnson, Dennis Gannon:
  HPC++: Experiments with the Parallel Standard Template Library. 124-131

Routing

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  Wu-chang Feng, Kang G. Shin:
  Impact of Selection Functions on Routing Algorithm Performance in Multicomputer Networks. 132-139
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  Aniruddha S. Vaidya, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Chita R. Das:
  Performance Benefits of Virtual Channels and Adaptive Routing: An Application-Driven Study. 140-147

Synchronization

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  Nian-Feng Tzeng, Angkul Kongmunvattana:
  Distributed Shared Memory Systems with Improved Barrier Synchronization and Data Transfer. 148-155
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  Elena Stöhr, Michael F. P. O'Boyle:
  A Graph Based Approach to Barrier Synchronisation Minimisation. 156-163
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  Arjan J. C. van Gemund:
  The Importance of Synchronization Structure in Parallel Program Optimization. 164-171

Performance

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  John G. Holm, John A. Chandy, Steven Parkes, Sumit Roy, Venkatram Krishnaswamy, Gagan Hasteer, Prithviraj Banerjee:
  Performance Evaluation of Message-Driven Parallel VLSI CAD Applications on General Purpose Multiprocessors. 172-179
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  Robert van Engelen, Ilja Heitlager, Lex Wolters, Gerard Cats:
  Incorporating Application Dependent Information in an Automatic Code Generating Environment. 180-187
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  Vladimir Kotlyar, Keshav Pingali:
  Sparse Code Generation for Imperfectly Nested Loops with Dependences. 188-195

Prefetching

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  José González, Antonio González:
  Speculative Execution via Address Prediction and Data Prefetching. 196-203
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  Ando Ki, Alan E. Knowles:
  Adaptive Data Prefetching Using Cache Information. 204-212

Communication and Multicasts

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  Jörg Cordsen, Hans Werner Pohl, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat:
  Performance considerations in software multicasts. 213-220
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  William Pugh, Evan Rosser:
  Iteration Space Slicing and Its Application to Communication Optimization. 221-228

Tree-based and Semi-Structured Applications

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  Nikos Chrisochoides, Induprakas Kodukula, Keshav Pingali:
  Compiler and Run-Time Support for Semi-Structured Applications. 229-236
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  Maria Cristina Pinotti, Sajal K. Das, Falguni Sarkar:
  Conflict-Free Template Access in k-ary and Binomial Trees. 237-244

Distributed Shared Memory

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  Daniel J. Scales, Kourosh Gharachorloo:
  Design and Performance of the Shasta Distributed Shared Memory Protocol. 245-252
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  Hironori Nakajo, Satoshi Ohtani, Takashi Matsumoto, Masadi Kohata, Kei Hiraki, Yukio Kaneda:
  An I/O Network Architecture of the Distributed Shared-Memory Massively Parallel Computer JUMP-1. 253-260

Compilers

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  Thomas Fahringer, Bernhard Scholz:
  Symbolic Evaluation for Parallelizing Compilers. 261-268
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  Mahmut T. Kandemir, J. Ramanujam, Alok N. Choudhary:
  A Compiler Algorithm for Optimizing Locality in Loop Nests. 269-276
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  Rizos Sakellariou, John R. Gurd:
  Compile-Time Minimisation of Load Imbalance in Loop Nests. 277-284

Hardware Features for Performance

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  Shlomo Reches, Shlomo Weiss:
  Implementation and Analysis of Path History in Dynamic Branch Prediction Schemes. 285-292
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  Roger Espasa, Mateo Valero:
  A Victim Cache for Vector Registers. 293-300
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  Soo-Mook Moon, Kemal Ebcioglu:
  Performance Analysis of Tree VLIW Architecture for Exploiting Branch ILP in Non-Numerical Code. 301-308

Data Placement and Transformation

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  Michael F. P. O'Boyle, Peter M. W. Knijnenburg:
  Non-Singular Data Transformations: Definition, Validity and Applications. 309-316
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  Somnath Ghosh, Margaret Martonosi, Sharad Malik:
  Cache Miss Equations: An Analytical Representation of Cache Misses. 317-324
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  Jai-Hoon Kim, Nitin H. Vaidya:
  Adaptive Migratory Scheme for Distributed Shared Memory. 325-332

Performance Prediction and Coding

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  Dieter F. Kvasnicka, Christoph W. Ueberhuber:
  Developing Architecture Adaptive Algorithms Using Simulation with MISS-PVM for Performance Prediction. 333-339
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  Jeff Bilmes, Krste Asanovic, Chee-Whye Chin, James Demmel:
  Optimizing Matrix Multiply Using PHiPAC: A Portable, High-Performance, ANSI C Coding Methodology. 340-347