SBAC-PAD 2004: Foz do Iguacu, Brazil

Cache and Memory Architectures

• Onur Mutlu, Hyesoon Kim, David N. Armstrong, Yale N. Patt:
  Cache Filtering Techniques to Reduce the Negative Impact of Useless Speculative Memory References on Processor Performance. 2-9
  
• Yue Luo, Lizy Kurian John, Lieven Eeckhout:
  Self-Monitored Adaptive Cache Warm-Up for Microprocessor Simulation. 10-17
  
• Martin Ohmacht, Dirk Hoenicke, Ruud A. Haring, Alan Gara:
  The eDRAM based L3-Cache of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer Processor Node. 18-22
  
• Eduardo Wanderley Netto, Rodolfo Azevedo, Paulo Centoducatte, Guido Araujo:
  Multi-Profile Instruction Based Compression. 23-29
  

Processor Architectures I

• Deniz Balkan, John Kalamatianos, David R. Kaeli:
  A Study of Errant Pipeline Flushes Caused by Value Misspeculation. 32-39
  
• Sandro Neves Soares, Flávio Rech Wagner:
  Design Space Exploration using T&D-Bench. 40-47
  
• Maurício L. Pilla, Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux, Bruce R. Childers, Amarildo T. da Costa, Felipe Maia Galvão França:
  Value Predictors for Reuse through Speculation on Traces. 48-55
  

Processor Architectures II

• Amaury Darsch, André Seznec:
  IATO: A Flexible EPIC Simulation Environment. 58-65
  
• Sandro Rigo, Guido Araujo, Marcus Bartholomeu, Rodolfo Azevedo:
  ArchC: A SystemC-Based Architecture Description Language. 66-73
  
• Marcus Bartholomeu, Rodolfo Azevedo, Sandro Rigo, Guido Araujo:
  Optimizations for Compiled Simulation Using Instruction Type Information. 74-81
  

Languages and Tools for Parallel and Distributed Programming

• Juan Rubio, Charles Lefurgy, Lizy Kurian John:
  Improving Server Performance on Transaction Processing Workloads by Enhanced Data Placement. 84-91
  
• André Luís Gobbi Sanches, Fernando Roberto Secco, Antônio Augusto Fröhlich:
  High Performance Communication System Based on Generic Programming. 92-99
  
• Rafael Bohrer Ávila, Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux, Pierre Lombard, Adrien Lebre, Yves Denneulin:
  Performance Evaluation of a Prototype Distributed NFS Server. 100-105
  

Grid, Cluster and Pervasive

• Sébastien Varrette, Jean-Louis Roch, Franck Leprévost:
  FlowCert : Probabilistic Certification for Peer-to-Peer Computations. 108-115
  
• Jean-Michel Busca, Marin Bertier, Fatima Belkouch, Pierre Sens, Luciana Bezerra Arantes:
  A Performance Evaluation of a Quorum-Based State-Machine Replication Algorithm For Computing Grids. 116-123
  
• Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Vilar Brasileiro, Lauro Costa, Daniel Paranhos da Silva, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Nazareno Andrade, César A. F. De Rose, Tiago C. Ferreto, Miranda Mowbray, Roque Scheer, João Jornada:
  Scheduling in Bag-of-Task Grids: The PAUÁ Case. 124-131
  
• Albano Alves, António Pina, José Exposto, José Rufino:
  memu: Unifying Application Modeling and Cluster Exploitation. 132-139
  

High Performance Applications

• Debora R. Roberti, Roberto P. Souto, Haroldo F. de Campos Velho, Gervásio Annes Degrazia, Domenico Anfossi:
  Parallel Implementation of a Lagrangian Stochastic Model for Pollution Dispersion. 142-149
  
• Eduardo Rocha Rodrigues, Airam Jonatas Preto, Stephan Stephany:
  A Parallel Engine for Graphical Interactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations. 150-157
  
• Marc Grunberg, Stéphane Genaud, Catherine Mongenet:
  Parallel Adaptive Mesh Coarsening for Seismic Tomography. 158-165
  
• Aravind Krishnaswamy, Gladimir V. G. Baranoski:
  Combining a Shared-Memory High Performance Computer and a Heterogeneous Cluster for the Simulation of Light Interaction with Human Skin. 166-171
  

Parallel and Distributed Algorithms

• Edson Norberto Cáceres, Cristiano Costa Argemom Vieira:
  Revisiting a BSP/CGM Transitive Closure Algorithm. 174-179
  
• Christophe Cérin, Michel Koskas, Hazem Fkaier, Mohamed Jemni:
  Improving Parallel Execution Time of Sorting on Heterogeneous Clusters. 180-187
  
• Eduardo Tavares, Raimundo S. Barreto, Meuse N. Oliveira Jr., Paulo Romero Martins Maciel, Marília Neves, Ricardo Massa Ferreira Lima:
  An Approach for Pre Runtime Scheduling in Embedded Hard Real Time Systems with Power Constraints. 188-195
  

Load Balancing and Scheduling

• Burkhard Monien, Stefan Schamberger:
  Graph Partitioning with the Party Library: Helpful-Sets in Practice. 198-205
  
• Jan Hungershöfer:
  On the Combined Scheduling of Malleable and Rigid Jobs. 206-213
  
• Cristina Boeres, José Viterbo Filho, Vinod E. F. Rebello:
  A Cluster-based Strategy for Scheduling Task on Heterogeneous Processors. 214-221
  
• Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello, Luciano José Senger:
  A New Migration Model based on the Evaluation of Processes Load and Lifetime on Heterogeneous Computing Environments. 222-227
  

Benchmarking, Performance Measurements and Analysis

• Salvador Petit, Julio Sahuquillo, Ana Pont, David R. Kaeli:
  Characterizing the Dynamic Behavior of Workload Execution in SVM systems. 230-237
  
• Sandro Bartolini, Irina Branovic, Roberto Giorgi, Enrico Martinelli:
  A Performance Evaluation of ARM ISA Extension for Elliptic Curve Cryptography over Binary Finite Fields. 238-245
  
• Edson T. Midorikawa, Hélio Marci de Oliveira, Jean Marcos Laine:
  PEMPIs: A New Methodology for Modeling and Prediction of MPI Programs Performance. 246-253
  
• Luiz Angelo Barchet-Estefanel, Grégory Mounié:
  Performance Characterisation of Intra-Cluster Collective Communications. 254-261