Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 157

Volume 157, November 2021

Regular Articles

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  Gerrett Diamond, Cameron W. Smith, Chonglin Zhang, Eisung Yoon, Mark S. Shephard:
  PUMIPic: A mesh-based approach to unstructured mesh Particle-In-Cell on GPUs. 1-12

Special issue on Keeping up with Technology: Teaching Parallel, Distributed and High-Performance Computing

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  Marco Aldinucci, Valentina Cesare, Iacopo Colonnelli, Alberto Riccardo Martinelli, Gianluca Mittone, Barbara Cantalupo, Carlo Cavazzoni, Maurizio Drocco:
  Practical parallelization of scientific applications with OpenMP, OpenACC and MPI. 13-29

Regular Articles

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  Borja Pérez, Esteban Stafford, José Luis Bosque, Ramón Beivide:
  Sigmoid: An auto-tuned load balancing algorithm for heterogeneous systems. 30-42

Special issue on Distributed Intelligence at the Edge for the Future Internet of Things

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  Zhongjin Li, Victor Chang, Haiyang Hu, Dongjin Yu, Jidong Ge, Binbin Huang:
  Profit maximization for security-aware task offloading in edge-cloud environment. 43-55

Short Review

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  Jagdeep Singh, Parminder Singh, Sukhpal Singh Gill:
  Fog computing: A taxonomy, systematic review, current trends and research challenges. 56-85

Regular Articles

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  Daniel Dunning, Nathaniel R. Morgan, Jacob L. Moore, Eappen Nelluvelil, Tanya V. Tafolla, Robert W. Robey:
  MATAR: A performance portability and productivity implementation of data-oriented design with Kokkos. 86-104
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  Malgorzata Przybyla-Kasperek:
  The power of agents in a dispersed system - The Shapley-Shubik power index. 105-124
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  Lionel Quaranta, Lalith Maddegedara:
  A novel MPI+MPI hybrid approach combining MPI-3 shared memory windows and C11/C++11 memory model. 125-144
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  Zhanyou Ma, Changzhen Zhang, Liyuan Zhang, Shunzhi Wang:
  Energy saving strategy and Nash equilibrium of hybrid P2P networks. 145-156
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  Guangsong Li, Wei Chen, Bin Zhang, Siqi Lu:
  A fine-grained anonymous handover authentication protocol based on consortium blockchain for wireless networks. 157-167
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  Youmei Song, Tianyu Wo, Renyu Yang, Qi Shen, Jie Xu:
  Joint optimization of cache placement and request routing in unreliable networks. 168-178

Special issue on Keeping up with Technology: Teaching Parallel, Distributed and High-Performance Computing

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  Prasun Dewan, Samuel D. George, Andrew Wortas, Justin Do:
  Techniques and tools for visually introducing freshmen to object-based thread abstractions. 179-200
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  Joel C. Adams:
  Evolving PDC curriculum and tools: A study in responding to technological change. 201-219

Regular Articles

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  Shuang Zhao, Shuhui Chen, Hui Yang, Fei Wang, Ziling Wei:
  RF-RISA: A novel flexible random forest accelerator based on FPGA. 220-232

Special issue on Methods and Tools of Parallel and Distributed Programming and Program Automatic Construction 2020

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  Chiara Bodei, Pierpaolo Degano, Gian-Luigi Ferrari, Letterio Galletta:
  Modelling and analysing IoT systems. 233-242

Regular Articles

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  Gonzalo Nicolas-Barreales, Marcos Novalbos, Miguel A. Otaduy, Alberto Sánchez:
  MDScale: Scalable multi-GPU bonded and short-range molecular dynamics. 243-255
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  Bhargavi R. Upadhyay, Alberto Ros, Jalpa Shah:
  Efficient classification of private memory blocks. 256-268

Special issue on Smart Mobility Management and 5G/Beyond 5G (5BG) Wireless Access

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  Jun Xu, Rouhollah Rahmatizadeh, Ladislau Bölöni, Damla Turgut:
  A taxi dispatch system based on prediction of demand and destination. 269-279

Regular Articles

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  Vaneet Aggarwal, Tian Lan, Dheeraj Peddireddy:
  Preemptive scheduling on unrelated machines with fractional precedence constraints. 280-286
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  Jiaquan Gao, Yifei Xia, Renjie Yin, Guixia He:
  Adaptive diagonal sparse matrix-vector multiplication on GPU. 287-302

Special issue on Keeping up with Technology: Teaching Parallel, Distributed and High-Performance Computing

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  Debzani Deb, Muztaba Fuad:
  Integrating big data and cloud computing topics into the computing curricula: A modular approach. 303-315
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  Alec Goncharow, Matthew Mcquaigue, Erik Saule, Kalpathi R. Subramanian, Paula Goolkasian, Jamie Payton:
  CS-Materials: A system for classifying and analyzing pedagogical materials to improve adoption of parallel and distributed computing topics in early CS courses. 316-330