Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: trachos@uni-paderborn.de (Konstantin Trachos)
Subject: Re: References about Topic "hot spot" ?

I would like to express my special thanks to both turner@csrd.uiuc.edu
and zhang@ringer.cs.utsa.edu for pointing me to papers covering the hot
spot problem.

This is what I got:

	{ZYC93,
  author =	 "Xiaodong Zhang, Yong Yan, Robert Castaneda",
  title = 	 "Comparative Cerformance Analysis and Evaluation of
		  Hot Spots on Network-based Shared-memory
		  Architectures",
  institution =  "The University of Texas at San Antonio"
  year =	 1993
  address =      zhang@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
}

@TechReport{LSC92,      
  author =       "Jyh-Charn Liu and K. G. Shin and Charles C. Chang",
  title =        "Prevention of Hot Spots in Packet-Switched
                  Multistage Interconnection Networks",
  institution =  "Texas A\&M University",
  year =         1992,
  number =       "TAMU 92-016",
  address =      "College Station, Texas 77843-3112",
  month =        "July"
}


@Article{YeTL87,
  author = 	"Pen-Chung Yew and Nian-Feng Tzeng and Duncan H. Lawrie",
  title = 	"Distributing Hot Spot Addressing in Large Scale
		 Multiprocessors",
  journal = 	TOC,
  year = 	"1987",
  volume = 	"C-36",
  number = 	"4",
  pages = 	"388-395",
  month = 	apr,
  OPTnote = 	"Why hot spots need not be a problem"
}

@InProceedings{LeKK86,
  author = 	"Gyungho Lee and Clyde P. Kruskal and David J. Kuck",
  title = 	"The Effectiveness of Combining in Shared Memory
		 Parallel Computers in the Presence of ``Hot Spots''",
  booktitle = 	ICPP,
  year = 	"1986",
  pages = 	"35--41",
  OPTnote = 	""
}


@InProceedings{KuPf86,
  author = 	"Manoj Kumar and Gregory F. Pfister",
  title = 	"The Onset of Hot Spot Contention",
  booktitle = 	ICPP,
  year = 	"1986",
  pages = 	"28--34",
  OPTnote = 	""
}

@InProceedings{PfNo85,
  author =       "G. F. Pfister and V. A. Norton",
  title =        "{`Hot Spot'} Contention and Combining in Multistage
                  Interconnection Networks",
  pages =        "790--797",
  booktitle =    "Proceedings of the International Conference on
                  Parallel Processing",
  year =         1985
}

@InProceedings{RPPP85,
  author = 	"Gregory F. Pfister and W. C. Brantley and D. A.
		 George and S. L. Harvey and W. J. Kleinfeider and K.
		 P. McAuliffe and E. A. Melton and V. A. Norton and J. Weiss",
  title = 	"The {IBM Research Parallel Processor Prototype (RP3)}:
		 Introduction and Architecture",
  booktitle = 	ICPP,
  year = 	"1985",
  pages = 	"764-771",
  month = 	Aug,
  OPTnote = 	"First coined term ``hot-spot''"
}


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