IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) is a scholarly archival journal published monthly. Parallelism and distributed computing are foundational research and technology to rapidly advance computer systems and their applications. Read more about TPDS

From the March 2010 Issue...

On the Interplay of Parallelization, Program Performance, and Energy Consumption

By Sangyeun Cho and Rami G. Melhem

Featured article image This paper derives simple, yet fundamental formulas to describe the interplay between parallelism of an application, program performance, and energy consumption. Given the ratio of serial and parallel portions in an application and the number of processors, we derive optimal frequencies allocated to the serial and parallel regions in an application to either minimize the total energy consumption or minimize the energy-delay product.

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Editorials and Announcements

Editorial—Editor’s Note by Ivan Stojmenovic
News—TPDS's Most Cited Papers Per Year (Feb 2010) (PDF)
Editorial—Editor's Note: How to Write Research Articles in Computing and Engineering Disciplines by Ivan Stojmenovic (Feb 2010)
Editorial Web Extra—Full Supplemental PDF of Editor's Note: How to Write Research Articles in Computing and Engineering Disciplines by Ivan Stojmenovic and Veljko Milutinovic (Feb 2010) (PDF)
Editorial—Editor's Note by Ivan Stojmenovic (Jan 2010)
Editorial—EIC Farewell and New EIC Introduction (Dec 2009)

A word from the Editor-in-Chief, Ivan Stojmenovic

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Special Section on Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems
Special Section on High-Performance Computing with Accelerators
Special Section on Many-Task Computing

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