While the number of transistors on a chip increases exponentially over time, the productivity that can be realized from these systems has not kept pace. To deal with the complexit...
ose of the JVM is to abstract the Java language from the hardware and software platforms it runs on. For this reason, the JVM uses services offered by the host operating system in...
During the development of computer peripherals which interface to the processor via the system bus it is often necessary to acquire the signals on the bus at the hardware level. I...
H. A. Xie, Kevin E. Forward, K. M. Adams, D. Leask
Grid computations require global access to massive data stores. To meet this need, the GridNFS project aims to provide scalable, high-performance, transparent, and secure wide-are...
In a large sensor network, in-network data aggregation, i.e., combining partial results at intermediate nodes during message routing, significantly reduces the amount of communic...