Most cited papers in Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
What are the most cited papers in Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques?
The most cited paper in Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques is "Fast Parallel Algorithms for Short-Range Molecular Dynamics" (Steven J. Plimpton, 1995), with 45,350 citations. Next come "fastp: an ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor" (31,650) and "MapReduce" (18,671).
Showing 50 of 94 papers. Every paper with more than 1,518 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fast Parallel Algorithms for Short-Range Molecular Dynamics Steven J. Plimpton · Journal of Computational Physics | Mar 1995 | 45,350 |
| 2 | fastp: an ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor Shifu Chen, Yanqing Zhou, Yaru Chen et al. · Bioinformatics | 7 Jul 2018 | 31,650 |
| 3 | MapReduce Jay B. Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat · Communications of the ACM | 2008 | 18,671 |
| 4 | LINCS: A linear constraint solver for molecular simulations Berk Hess, Henk Bekker, Herman J. C. Berendsen et al. · Journal of Computational Chemistry | Sep 1997 | 17,504 |
| 5 | Suspending OpenMP Tasks on Asynchronous Events: Extending the Taskwait Construct Romain Pereira, M. N. Martin, Adrien Roussel et al. · Lecture notes in computer science | 2023 | 12,967 |
| 6 | The NumPy Array: A Structure for Efficient Numerical Computation Stéfan van der Walt, Steven C. Colbert, Gaël Varoquaux · Computing in Science & Engineering | Mar 2011 | 11,189 |
| 7 | Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach John LeRoy Hennessy, David A. Patterson · UCLA - Biblioteca de Ciencias y Tecnologia Felix Morales Bueno | Dec 1989 | 9,556 |
| 8 | TensorFlow: A system for large-scale machine learning Martı́n Abadi et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) | 27 May 2016 | 8,828 |
| 9 | Xen and the art of virtualization Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser et al. · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review | 19 Oct 2003 | 5,944 |
| 10 | A Complexity Measure Thomas J. McCabe · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | Dec 1976 | 5,923 |
| 11 | Parallel and Distributed Computation: Numerical Methods Dimitri P. Bertsekas, John N. Tsitsiklis · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | 1989 | 5,430 |
| 12 | The gem5 simulator Nathan L. Binkert, Bradford M. Beckmann, Gabriel Black et al. · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News | 31 May 2011 | 4,935 |
| 13 | UCSF ChimeraX : Tools for structure building and analysis Elaine C. Meng, Thomas D. Goddard, Eric F. Pettersen et al. · Protein Science | 29 Sep 2023 | 4,712 |
| 14 | In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit Norman Paul Jouppi et al. | 15 Jun 2017 | 4,527 |
| 15 | Benchmarking optimization software with performance profiles Elizabeth D. Dolan, Jorge J. Morè · Mathematical Programming | 2002 | 4,469 |
| 16 | IPython: A System for Interactive Scientific Computing Fernando Evier López Pérez, Brian Granger · Computing in Science & Engineering | 2007 | 4,209 |
| 17 | The C++ Programming Language Bjarne Stroustrup | 1985 | 3,847 |
| 18 | Communicating sequential processes C. A. R. Hoare · Communications of the ACM | 1983 | 3,789 |
| 19 | The university of Florida sparse matrix collection Timothy A. Davis, Yifan Hu · ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software | Nov 2011 | 3,709 |
| 20 | A Bridging Model for Parallel Computation Leslie Gabriel Valiant · ACM eBooks | Aug 1990 | 3,701 |
| 21 | The SPLASH-2 programs Steven Cameron Woo, Moriyoshi Ohara, Evan Torrie et al. | 1995 | 3,634 |
| 22 | Cyber Physical Systems: Design Challenges Edward A. Lee | May 2008 | 3,535 |
| 23 | Performance-effective and low-complexity task scheduling for heterogeneous computing Haluk Rahmi Topcuoglu, Salim Hariri, Min‐You Wu · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems | Mar 2002 | 3,476 |
| 24 | The PARSEC benchmark suite Christian Bienia, Sanjeev Kumar, Jaswinder Pal Singh et al. | 25 Oct 2008 | 3,459 |
| 25 | OpenMP: an industry standard API for shared-memory programming Leonardo Dagum, Ramesh G. Menon · IEEE Computational Science and Engineering | 1998 | 3,386 |
| 26 | Route packets, net wires William J. Dally, Brian Towles | 2001 | 3,213 |
| 27 | Pin Chi-Keung Luk, Robert S. Cohn, Robert Muth et al. · ACM SIGPLAN Notices | 12 Jun 2005 | 3,209 |
| 28 | Linearizability: a correctness condition for concurrent objects Maurice P. Herlihy, Jeannette M. Wing · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems | Jul 1990 | 3,203 |
| 29 | Globus: a Metacomputing Infrastructure Toolkit Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman · The International Journal of Supercomputer Applications and High Performance Computing | Jun 1997 | 3,157 |
| 30 | System architecture directions for networked sensors Jason Hill, Robert Szewczyk, Alec Woo et al. · ACM SIGPLAN Notices | Nov 2000 | 3,097 |
| 31 | The SimpleScalar tool set, version 2.0 Doug Burger, Todd M. Austin · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News | Jun 1997 | 3,060 |
| 32 | Rodinia: A benchmark suite for heterogeneous computing Shuai Che, Michael Joseph Boyer, Jiayuan Meng et al. | Oct 2009 | 3,043 |
| 33 | MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Cluster Muthu Dayalan · INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING | Apr 2018 | 2,975 |
| 34 | The program dependence graph and its use in optimization Jeanne Ferrante, Karl J. Ottenstein, Joe D. Warren · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems | Jul 1987 | 2,776 |
| 35 | LLVM: A compilation framework for lifelong program analysis & transformation Chris Lattner, Vikram Adve | 10 Jun 2004 | 2,639 |
| 36 | Parallel & distributed processing Philipp Slusallek, Peter Shirley, William R. Mark et al. | 2005 | 2,594 |
| 37 | Wattch David M. Brooks, Vivek Tiwari, Margaret Martonosi | 2000 | 2,588 |
| 38 | How to Make a Multiprocessor Computer That Correctly Executes Multiprocess Programs Lamport · IEEE Transactions on Computers | Sep 1979 | 2,537 |
| 39 | The Case for Energy-Proportional Computing Luiz André Barroso, Urs Hölzle · Computer | Dec 2007 | 2,496 |
| 40 | Roofline Samuel Williams, Andrew S. Waterman, David A. Patterson · Communications of the ACM | Apr 2009 | 2,477 |
| 41 | NAMD2: Greater Scalability for Parallel Molecular Dynamics Laxmikant V. Kalé, Robert D. Skeel, Milind A. Bhandarkar et al. · Journal of Computational Physics | May 1999 | 2,463 |
| 42 | Dryad Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yu Bi Yuan et al. | 21 Mar 2007 | 2,460 |
| 43 | Distributed snapshots K. Mani Chandy, Leslie Lamport · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems | Feb 1985 | 2,449 |
| 44 | McPAT Sheng Li, Jung Ho Ahn, Richard D. Strong et al. | 12 Dec 2009 | 2,386 |
| 45 | AdapterRemoval v2: rapid adapter trimming, identification, and read merging Mikkel Schubert, Stinus Lindgreen, Ludovic Orlando · BMC Research Notes | 11 Feb 2016 | 2,333 |
| 46 | Pin Chi-Keung Luk, Robert S. Cohn, Robert Muth et al. | 12 Jun 2005 | 2,306 |
| 47 | A Fully Asynchronous Multifrontal Solver Using Distributed Dynamic Scheduling Patrick Amestoy, Iain Duff, Jean-Yves L’Excellent et al. · SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications | 2001 | 2,304 |
| 48 | An Algorithm for Subgraph Isomorphism Julian R. Ullmann · Journal of the ACM | 1976 | 2,300 |
| 49 | A case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID) David A. Patterson, Garth A. Gibson, Randy Howard Katz · ACM SIGMOD Record | Jun 1988 | 2,295 |
| 50 | Generative communication in Linda David Hillel Gelernter · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems | 2 Jan 1985 | 2,286 |
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