The London Workshop
The fourth QMIPS workshop was held at the Imperial College, London
on April 14 and 15, 1994.
Its theme was: performance of parallel computer systems.
The proceedings have been edited as:
``Proceedings of the 4th QMIPS Workshop on the
Performance of Parallel Computer Systems'', P.G. Harrison and
A.C. de Pinto (eds.), Research Report DoC 94/18, Department of
Computing, Imperial College, October 1994.
Their contents is:
Chapter 1: Optimization and Scheduling
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Scheduling of Parallel Programs in Single-Bus Multiprocessor
Systems,
L. Finta and Z. Liu.
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Regular Sequences and Applications in Cyclic Scheduling,
B. Gaujal.
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Assigning a Single Server to Inhomogeneous Queues with Switching
Costs,
G. Koole.
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Optimal Probabilistic Allocation of Customer Types to Servers,
S.C. Borst.
Chapter 2: Load Balancing
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A Simulator for Task Assignment and Load Balancing in Presence of
Failures,
M. Hernández and J. Aguilar.
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Strategies for Load Balancing in the Distributed Computation of
Associative Operations,
B. Gaujal, A. Jean-Marie and S. Mazeau.
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Dependable Distributed Computing,
S. Chabridon and E. Gelenbe.
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Incremental Dynamic Load Balancing in Distributed Systems,
E. Gelenbe and R. Kushwaha.
Chapter 3: Work in Progress
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Routing Among Different Nodes Where Servers Break Down Without
Losing Jobs,
N. Thomas and I. Mitrani.
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Cache Coherency in an SCI Ring,
A.J. Field, P.G. Harrison and N. Lehovetski.
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The M/G/1 Queue with Negative Customers,
P.G. Harrison and E. Pitel.
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