When a program uses Software Transactional Memory (STM) to synchronize accesses to shared memory, the performance often depends on which STM implementation is used. Implementation...
Job management subsystems in parallel environments have to address two important issues: (i) how to associate processes present in the system to the tasks of parallel jobs, and (ii...
Safe language technology can be used for protection within a single address space. This protection is enforced by the language’s type system, which ensures that references to obj...
Thorsten von Eicken, Chi-Chao Chang, Grzegorz Czaj...
Clusters of workstations are increasingly being viewed as a cost-e ective alternative to parallel supercomputers. However, resource management and scheduling on workstations clust...
Abdur Chowdhury, Lisa D. Nicklas, Sanjeev Setia, E...
In recent years, many emerging database applications deal with large sets of continuously moving data objects. Since no computer system can commit continuously occurring infinitesi...