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- From: chunghsu@paul.rutgers.edu (Chung-Hsing Hsu)
- Subject: summary: scalability analysis
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.125710.8692@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Keywords: scalability, analysis, summary
- Sender: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (Steve Stevenson)
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
- Date: 21 Nov 92 02:14:41 GMT
- Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu
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- Two weeks ago I posted a message asking for the references on scalability
- analysis. The following is the responses I get.
- (I only include the replies which give me the references, and modify them
- in a concise way.)
- Thanks to those who sent me the information.
-
- - Chung-Hsing Hsu
-
- Here are the references.
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- From: picano@ecn.purdue.edu (Silvio Picano)
-
- Vipin Kumar has done quite a bit of impressive work in exactly
- what you are looking for. He recently posted a message in
- comp.parallel that I have included below. He sent me quite a few
- of his papers over this past summer. He may have a survey paper,
- or know exactly where to find one.
-
- (ps* Professor Kumar has a survey paper. Please see the following)
-
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- From: dbader@eng.umd.edu (David Bader)
-
- Refer to the following textbook. It uses the PRAM model to focus on
- parallel algorithmic issues, and also uses a Work-Time framework to
- analyse parallel algorithms.
-
- JaJa, Joseph. Introduction to Parallel Algorithms. Addison-Wesley,
- New York, 1992.
-
- ------------------------
- From: Jan Prins <prins@cs.unc.edu>
-
- One example of such an analysis (rather than a particular technique) is
- in the 1991 SPAA paper on the implementation of sorting algorithms for
- the CM-2 by Blelloch et al.
-
- ------------------------
- From: agupta@loon.cs.umn.edu (Anshul Gupta)
-
- @techreport{KUMAR91scale,
- AUTHOR = "Vipin Kumar and Anshul Gupta",
- TITLE ="Analyzing Scalability of Parallel Algorithms and Architectures",
- YEAR = "June 1991",
- NUMBER = "TR-91-18",
- INSTITUTION = "Computer Science Department, University of Minnesota",
- NOTE = "A short version of the paper appears in the
- Proceedings of the 1991 International Conference on Supercomputing, Germany,
- and as an invited paper in the Proc. of 29th Annual Allerton
- Conference on Communuication, Control and Computing, Urbana,IL, October 1991"
- }
-
- (ps* This is the survey paper from Prof Kumar. You can get it by using
- anonymous ftp to ftp.cs.umn.edu:/users/kumar/survey.ps)
-
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- From: chihoub@sylvester.siemens.com (Abdelaziz Chihoub)
-
- Prof. Vipin Kumar at university of Minnesota has
- a good report on scalability (you can get in touch
- with him).
-
- -----------------------
- From: Jose Cheng <cheng@inf.enst.fr>
-
- D.Nussbaum, A.Agarwal: Scalability of Parallel Machines
- Communications ACM, March 1991 (vol.34, no.3)
-
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- There is also a special issue on supercomputer performance metrics:
-
- Parallel Computing, December 1991 (vol.17, nos.10&11)
-
-