{"title":"Process synchronization in workflow management systems","authors":"G. Alonso, D. Agrawal, A. E. Abbadi","doi":"10.1109/SPDP.1996.570387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPDP.1996.570387","url":null,"abstract":"Workflow management systems automate the execution of business processes allowing the concurrent execution of multiple process instances. Existing systems do not provide a mechanism to guarantee correct concurrent execution and, as a result, it is not possible to coordinate and synchronize different process instances. Part of the problem is that conventional techniques are not entirely suitable for workflow environments. In databases, locks are the basic mechanism. In operating systems, this is achieved using semaphores or monitors. Neither of these approaches is appropriate for workflow applications. A method is proposed to enforce correct interleavings and guarantee mutual exclusion, as defined by the user, between concurrent workflow processes. The proposed protocol takes advantage of the semantic constructs associated with workflow management to solve some complex problems such as dealing with inherited restrictions and the coarse granularity of workflow specifications.","PeriodicalId":360478,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SPDP '96: 8th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127272716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recursive hierarchical swapped networks: versatile interconnection architectures for highly parallel systems","authors":"C. Yeh, B. Parhami","doi":"10.1109/SPDP.1996.570368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPDP.1996.570368","url":null,"abstract":"The authors propose a new class of interconnection networks called recursive hierarchical swapped networks (RHSN) for general-purpose parallel processing. The node degrees of RHSNs can vary from a small number to as large as required, depending on recursive and hierarchical composition parameters and the nucleus graph chosen. The diameter of an RHSN can be asymptotically optimal within a small constant factor. They present efficient routing, semigroup computation, ascend/descend, matrix-matrix multiplication, and emulation algorithms, thus proving the versatility of RHSNs. In particular on suitably constructed RHSNs, matrix multiplication can be performed faster than the DNS algorithm on a hypercube. Furthermore, ascend/descend algorithms, semigroup computation, and parallel prefix computation can be done using algorithms with asymptotically fewer communication steps than on a hypercube.","PeriodicalId":360478,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SPDP '96: 8th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126900890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Pissinou, Kanonkluk Vanapipat, K. Makki, B. Rajashekhar, E. Park, B. Wong, X. Jia
{"title":"A framework for modeling applications as distributed active objects","authors":"N. Pissinou, Kanonkluk Vanapipat, K. Makki, B. Rajashekhar, E. Park, B. Wong, X. Jia","doi":"10.1109/SPDP.1996.570318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPDP.1996.570318","url":null,"abstract":"This paper identifies a framework for modeling applications as distributed active objects, which can either be used to design a new active distributed multidatabase architecture or can be applied to an existing multidatabase architectural design to make it active. A system whose design follows a model such as the one proposed in this paper is referred to as an active multidatabase system, for it is equipped with mechanisms to detect and propagate anticipated changes as distributed active objects.","PeriodicalId":360478,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SPDP '96: 8th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115017275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Palindrome network for fault-tolerant interconnection","authors":"Y. Liao, Mi Lu, N. Tzeng","doi":"10.1109/SPDP.1996.570383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPDP.1996.570383","url":null,"abstract":"A new interconnection network composed of 3/spl times/3 switching elements is proposed. This new network is called Palindrome interconnection network (PIN) with hardware complexity identical to its counterparts. Compared with its counterparts, the proposed network is fault-tolerant, as totally disjoint paths exist in the network between any source/destination pair. In addition, for a given routing tag in the PIN, all the other equivalent tags which correspond to the same source/destination pair, can be derived easily. Computing an equivalent routing tag from a given routing tag requires the change of two bits of routing tag, irrespective of the network size, suggesting that rerouting logics can be incorporated into the constituent switching element comfortably without compromising performance. The proposed network exhibits higher terminal reliability than its counterparts.","PeriodicalId":360478,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SPDP '96: 8th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115024865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On optimal placements of processors in tori networks","authors":"M. Blaum, Jehoshua Bruck, G. Pifarré, J. Sanz","doi":"10.1109/SPDP.1996.570382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPDP.1996.570382","url":null,"abstract":"Two and three dimensional k-tori are among the most used topologies in the designs of new parallel computers. Traditionally (with the exception of the Tera parallel computer), these networks have been used as fully-populated networks, in the sense that every routing node in the topology is subjected to message injection. However, fully populated tori and meshes exhibit a theoretical throughput which degrades as the network size increases. In contrast, multistage networks (that are partially populated) scale well with the network size. Introducing slackness in fully populated tori, i.e., reducing the number of processors, and studying optimal routing strategies for the resulting interconnections are the central subjects of the paper. The key concept is the placement of the processors in a network together with a routing algorithm between them, where a placement is the subset of the nodes in the interconnection network that are attached to processors. The main contribution is the construction of optimal placements for d-dimensional k-tori networks, of sizes k and k/sup 2/ and the corresponding routing algorithms for the cases d=2 and d=3, respectively.","PeriodicalId":360478,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SPDP '96: 8th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126686861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcelo M. de Azevedo, N. Bagherzadeh, M. Dowd, S. Latifi
{"title":"Average distance and routing algorithms in the star-connected cycles interconnection network","authors":"Marcelo M. de Azevedo, N. Bagherzadeh, M. Dowd, S. Latifi","doi":"10.1109/SPDP.1996.570367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPDP.1996.570367","url":null,"abstract":"The star-connected cycles (SCC) graph was recently proposed as an attractive interconnection network for parallel processing, using a star graph to connect cycles of nodes. The paper presents an analytical solution for the problem of the average distance of the SCC graph. They divide the cost of a route in the SCC graph into three components, and show that one of such components is affected by the routing algorithm being used. Three routing algorithms for the SCC graph are presented, which respectively employ random, greedy and minimal routing rules. The computational complexities of the algorithms, and the average costs of the paths they produce, are compared. Finally, they discuss how the algorithms presented in the paper can be used in association with wormhole routing.","PeriodicalId":360478,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SPDP '96: 8th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121417418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A leaner, more efficient, available copy protocol","authors":"D. Long, Jehan-Francois Pâris","doi":"10.1109/SPDP.1996.570361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPDP.1996.570361","url":null,"abstract":"Available copy protocols provide the highest data availability and data reliability of all replication protocols that do not regenerate failed replicas. Unfortunately, all existing implementations of available copy protocols either rely on complex procedures for ascertaining which replicas are up to date after a total failure or have to wait for the recovery of all failed sites. We present a simple technique for efficiently implementing the available copy protocol. Our protocol does not require version numbers and maintains only n+log(n) bits of state per replica. We also show under standard Markovian assumptions that our new protocol provides the same data availability as the best feasible implementations of the available copy protocol.","PeriodicalId":360478,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SPDP '96: 8th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132023186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On-line real-time task scheduling on partitionable multiprocessors","authors":"P. Mohapatra, ByungJun Ahn, Jianping Shi","doi":"10.1109/SPDP.1996.570354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPDP.1996.570354","url":null,"abstract":"Multiprocesssor systems have emerged as an important computing means for real-time applications and have received increasing attention than before. However until now, little research has been done on the problem of on-line scheduling of parallel tasks with deadlines in partitionable multiprocessor systems. In this paper, we propose a new on-line scheduling algorithm, called Deferred Earliest Deadline First (DEDF) for such systems. The main idea of the DEDF algorithm is to defer the scheduling as late as possible, so that a set of jobs is scheduled at a time instead of one at a time. For processor allocation using DEDF, we have introduced a new concept-Available Time Window (ATW). By using ATW the system utilization can be improved and thereby enabling the system to meet the deadline of more number of tasks. Simulation results for a hypercube indicate that the DEDF algorithm performs significantly better than the earlier proposed Buddy/RT and Stacking algorithms for a wide range of work loads.","PeriodicalId":360478,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SPDP '96: 8th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130639870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An efficient implementation of tree-based multicast routing for distributed shared-memory multiprocessors","authors":"Manuel P. Malumbres, J. Duato, J. Torrellas","doi":"10.1109/SPDP.1996.570332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPDP.1996.570332","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an efficient routing and flow control mechanism to implement multidestination message passing in wormhole networks. It is targeted to situations where the size of message data is very small, like in invalidation and update messages in distributed shared-memory multiprocessors (DSMs) with hardware cache coherence. The mechanism is a variation of tree-based multicast with pruning to avoid deadlocks. The new scheme does not require that the destination addresses in a given multicast message be ordered, thereby avoiding any ordering overhead. It allows messages to use any deadlock-free routing function and only requires one startup for each multicast message. The new scheme has been evaluated on several k-ary n-cube networks under synthetic loads. The results show that the proposed scheme is faster than other multicast mechanisms when the multicast traffic is composed of short messages.","PeriodicalId":360478,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SPDP '96: 8th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130085656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fast deterministic sorting on large parallel machines","authors":"T. Dachraoui, L. Narayanan","doi":"10.1109/SPDP.1996.570344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPDP.1996.570344","url":null,"abstract":"Many sorting algorithms that perform well on uniformly distributed data suffer significant performance degradation on non-random data. Unfortunately many real-world applications require sorting on data that is not uniformly distributed. In this paper we consider distributions of varying entropies. We describe A-Ranksort, a new sorting algorithm for parallel machines, whose behavior on input distributions of different entropies is relatively stable. Our algorithm is based on a deterministic strategy to find approximate ranks for all keys. We implemented A-Ranksort, B-Flashsort, Radixsort, and Bitonic sort on a 2048 processor Maspar MP-1. Our experiments show that A-Ranksort out-performs all the other algorithms on a variety of input distributions, when the output is required to be balanced. We are also able to provide bounds on the average-case and worst-case complexities of our algorithm, in terms of the costs of some chosen primitive operations. The predicted performance is very close to the empirical results, thus justifying our model.","PeriodicalId":360478,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of SPDP '96: 8th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134306330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}