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Performance prediction and race detection in message-passing parallel applications

Basile Schäli

The combination of low cost clusters and multicore processors lowers the barrier for accessing massive amounts of computing power. As computational sciences advance, the use of in silico simulations to complement in vivo experiments promises parallel progr ...

EPFL2009

The complexity of reliable distributed storage

Ron Levy

Distributed storage systems based on commodity hardware have gained in popularity because they are cheaper, can be made more reliable and offer better scalability than centralized storage systems. However, implementing and managing such systems is more com ...

EPFL2008

The Collective Memory of Amnesic Processes

Rachid Guerraoui, Bastian Pochon, James Pugh, Ron Levy

This paper considers the problem of robustly emulating a shared atomic memory over a distributed message passing system where processes can fail by crashing and possibly recover. We revisit the notion of atomicity in the crash-recovery context and introduc ...

2008

How Fast Can a Very Robust Read Be?

Rachid Guerraoui, Marko Vukolic

This paper studies the time complexity of reading unauthenticated data from a distributed storage made of a set of failure-prone base objects. More specifically, we consider the abstraction of a robust read/write storage that provides wait-free access to u ...

2006

How Fast Can a Very Robust Read Be?

Rachid Guerraoui, Marko Vukolic

2006

Fault-tolerant parallel applications with dynamic parallel schedules: a programmer's perspective

Roger Hersch, Sebastian Gerlach

Dynamic parallel schedules (DPS) is a flow graph based framework for developing parallel applications on clusters of workstations. The DPS flow graph execution model enables automatic pipelined parallel execution of applications. DPS supports graceful degr ...

Sptinger-Verlag2006

Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen

Willy Zwaenepoel, Aravind Menon

BEST PAPER AWARDIn this paper, we propose and evaluate three techniques for optimizing network performance in the Xen virtualized environment. Our techniques retain the basic Xen architecture of locating device dri ...

2006

Fault-tolerant parallel applications with dynamic parallel schedules

Roger Hersch, Sebastian Gerlach

Commodity computer clusters are often composed of hundreds of computing nodes. These generally off-the-shelf systems are not designed for high reliability. Node failures therefore drive the MTBF of such clusters to unacceptable levels. The software framewo ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, United States2005

Robust Emulations of Shared Memory in a Crash-Recovery Model

Rachid Guerraoui, Ron Levy

A shared memory abstraction can be robustly emulated over an asynchronous message passing system where any process can fail by crashing and possibly recover (crash-recovery model), by having (a) the processes exchange messages to synchronize their read and ...

2004

What Can Be Implemented Anonymously?

Rachid Guerraoui, Eric Ruppert

The vast majority of papers on distributed computing assume that processes are assigned unique identifiers before computation begins. But is this assumption necessary? What if processes do not have unique identifiers or do not wish to divulge them for reas ...

2004