Responsive parallel computation: bridging competitive and cooperative threading

Responsive Parallel Computation

As parallel (multicore) hardware proliferates, there is growing interest in developing languages and techniques for writing and reasoning about parallel programs. One important direction is to abstract away from the details of how parallelism is implemented by using implicitly parallel programming languages and reasoning about performance using abstract cost models based on the metrics of work ...

Thesis Proposal Responsive Parallel Computation

Multicore processors are becoming increasingly prevalent, blurring the lines between traditional parallel programs, which use cooperative threading to reduce execution time, and interactive programs which use competitive threading to increase responsiveness. To assist programmers in developing this new class of responsive parallel programs which use threads for both of these purposes, I propose...

Online computation and competitive analysis

Comparing Competitive and Cooperative Content-Based Instruction in Reading and Writing Classes

Parallel computation framework for optimizing trailer routes in bulk transportation

We consider a rich tanker trailer routing problem with stochastic transit times for chemicals and liquid bulk orders. A typical route of the tanker trailer comprises of sourcing a cleaned and prepped trailer from a pre-wash location, pickup and delivery of chemical orders, cleaning the tanker trailer at a post-wash location after order delivery and prepping for the next order. Unlike traditiona...