In 2002, Japan announced the Earth Simulator—a supercomputer based on low-volume vector processors and a custom network—and reported that computational scientists had used it ...
The low cost and wide availability of networks of workstations have made them an attractive solution for high performance computing. However, while a network of workstations may be...
—Providing independent uniform samples from a system population poses considerable problems in highly dynamic settings, like P2P systems, where the number of participants and the...
Roberto Baldoni, Marco Platania, Leonardo Querzoni...
We consider multiprocessor distributed real-time systems where concurrency control is managed using software transactional memory (or STM). For such a system, we propose an algori...
Sherif Fadel Fahmy, Binoy Ravindran, E. Douglas Je...
Modern scientific experiments can generate hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes or even petabytes of data that may furthermore be maintained in large numbers of relatively small fil...
Wantao Liu, Brian Tieman, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Ian...