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The MapReduce programming model has been widely used in big data and cloud applications. Criticism on its inflexibility when being applied to complicated scientific applications recently emerges. Several techniques have been proposed to enhance its flexibility. However, some of them exert special requirements on applications, while others fail to support the increasingly popular coprocessors, such...
The MapReduce programming model has been widely used in Big Data and Cloud applications. Criticism on its inflexibility when being applied to complicated scientific applications recently emerges. Several techniques have been proposed to enhance its flexibility. However, some of them exert special requirements on applications, while others fail to support the increasingly popular coprocessors, such...
MapReduce is a popular data-parallel processing model encompassed with recent advances in computing technology and has been widely exploited for large-scale data analysis. The high demand on MapReduce has stimulated the investigation of MapReduce implementations with different architectural models and computing paradigms, such as multi-core clusters, Clouds, Cubieboards and GPUs. Particularly, current...
Graphics processors evolve rapidly and promise to support power-efficient, cost, differentiated price-performance, and scalable high performance computing. MapReduce is a well-known distributed programming model to ease the development of applications for large-scale data processing on a large number of commodity CPUs. When compared to CPUs, GPUs are an order of magnitude faster in terms of computation...
Checkpoint/restart has been an effective mechanism to achieve fault tolerance for many scientific applications. However, as GPU becomes a much bigger role in high performance computing, there is no effective checkpoint/restart scheme yet due to GPU's batch-mode execution manner. The paper proposes an application-level checkpoint/restart scheme to save and restore GPU computation states. A precompiler...
Computation state construction is an indispensable step to achieve fault tolerance and computation mobility for scientific applications by saving and restoring the state during program execution. However, there is no effective state construction scheme yet due to the GPU's batch-mode execution manner as the GPU takes on a larger role in high performance computing. The GPU's complex memory hierarchy...
As graphics processing units (GPUs) gain adoption as general purpose parallel compute devices, several key problems need to be addressed in order for their use to become more practical and more user friendly. One such problem is special functions designed to execute on GPUs called kernel functions are non-preempt able. Once the kernel is issued to the GPU it will remain there till either execution...
Shape recognition, an important portion of image processing, has been widely applied in many research and application areas. Traditional Hough transform, which is a modern shape recognition technique, incurs unbearable execution time and memory storage cost during the extraction of high-dimensional shapes. This paper presents an approach for circle extraction based on generalized image projection...
In recent years, Burrows-Wheeler Transformation (BWT) has become a popular method for sequence alignment in bioinformatics applications. Several multithreaded programs such Bowtie, BWA and SOAP2 are developed to make DNA sequencing fast. However, as the requests from patients grow extremely fast, current machines for analysis, most of which are CPUs, becomes more incapable in providing sufficient...
Current Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) presents large potentials in speeding up computationally intensive data parallel applications over traditional parallelization approaches since there are much more hardware threads inside GPUs than the computational cores available to common CPU threads. NVIDIA developed a generic GPU programming platform, CUDA, which allows programmers to utilize GPU through...
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