Over the past two decades, molecular genetic research has helped to elucidate the genetic component of many diseases and conditions. Patients can now be tested for a wide variety of disease-causing genes to improve dia gnoses and risk predictions for patients and their families (www.eddnal.com). This, in turn, has allowed physicians to provide advice on lifestyle or other preventative measures ...

Persistent threads are a database programming concept particularly well-suited for a.pplications that manage long-term, distributed or cooperative activities. We introduce persistent threads as a novel form of bindings from data in persistent object stores to activated code and relate them to existing binding concepts found in database programming. We also describe the integration of persistent...

In this paper, we introduce Continuation Passing C (CPC), a programming language for concurrent systems in which native and cooperative threads are unified and presented to the programmer as a single abstraction. The CPC compiler uses a compilation technique, based on the CPS transform, that yields efficient code and an extremely lightweight representation for contexts. We provide a proof of th...

Many multiprocessor systems are based on distributed shared memory. It is often important to statically bind threads to processors in order to avoid remote memory access, due to performance. Finding a good allocation takes long time and it is hard to know when to stop searching for a better one. It is sometimes impossible to run the application on the target machine. The developer needs a tool ...

This paper describes a range of approaches to capturing the state of Java threads. The capture and restoration of Java threads state have two main purposes: to make Java applications mobile and to make them persistent. We compare different approaches, give a preliminary evaluation and describe our ongoing work in this area.

Attention is a core property of all perceptual and cognitive operations. Given limited capacity to process competing options, attentional mechanisms select, modulate, and sustain focus on information most relevant for behavior. A significant problem, however, is that attention is so ubiquitous that it is unwieldy to study. We propose a taxonomy based on the types of information that attention o...

Efficient parallelization of genetic algorithms (GAs) on state-of-the-art multi-threading or many-threading platforms is a challenge due to the difficulty of schedulation of hardware resources regarding the concurrency of threads. In this paper, for resolving the problem, a novel method is proposed, which parallelizes the GA by designing three concurrent kernels, each of which running some depe...

This paper discusses design goals, design decisions, and implementation choices of DSM-Threads, a runtime system to support distributed threads with a distributed shared virtual memory (DSM). DSM-Threads provides a distributed runtime system with a kernel on each node, which relies on POSIX threads locally and a decentralized communication subsystem between nodes. Support for multiple data cons...