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Jeffrey Fier
Researcher at University of California
Publications - 3
Citations - 159
Jeffrey Fier is an academic researcher from University of California. The author has contributed to research in topics: Scalability & Synchronizing. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 156 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeffrey Fier include IBM & Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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Improving the Scalability of Parallel Jobs by adding Parallel Awareness to the Operating System
Terry Jones,Shawn Dawson,R. Neely,William G. Tuel,Larry Bert Brenner,Jeffrey Fier,Robert S. Blackmore,Patrick Caffrey,Brian Maskell,Paul Tomlinson,Mark Roberts +10 more
TL;DR: A novel co-scheduling scheme for improving performance of fine-grain collective activities such as barriers and reductions is presented, an implementation consisting of operating system kernel modifications and run-time system is described, and a set of empirical results comparing the technique with traditional operating system scheduling are presented.
Patent
Parallel-aware, dedicated job co-scheduling method and system
Terry Jones,Pythagoras Watson,William G. Tuel,Larry Bert Brenner,Patrick Caffrey,Jeffrey Fier +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a parallel-aware co-scheduling method and system for improving the performance and scalability of a dedicated parallel job having synchronizing collective operations is presented.
Patent
Parallel-aware, dedicated job co-scheduling within/across symmetric multiprocessing nodes
Terry Jones,Pythagoras Watson,William G. Tuel,Larry Bert Brenner,Patrick Caffrey,Jeffrey Fier +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a parallel-aware co-scheduling method and system for improving the performance and scalability of a dedicated parallel job having synchronizing collective operations is presented.