The Java language and platform have been considered by many as natural candidate for creating grid systems. The platform-independent runtime environment, safe and high-level langu...
The Classloader has long been one of the key extensibility points of the Java Virtual Machine architecture. It lies at the heart of many of the distributed mechanisms that have mad...
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard provides a uniform Application Programmers Interface (API) that abstracts the underlying hardware from the parallel applications. Rece...
The heterogeneous parallel processing community has long been struggling to bring its approach to computation into the mainstream. One major impediment is that no popular programm...
Universal Personal Computing (UPC) supports nomadic computing on the Internet by allowing mobile users to access their personalized computing resources anywhere on the Internet us...