Extensible systems, such as Java or the SPIN extensible operating system, allow for units of code, or extensions, to be added to a running system in almost arbitrary fashion. Exte...
This paper presents the main concepts of the IST Project FAIN "Future Active IP Networks" [10], a three-year collaborative research project, whose main task is to develo...
Alex Galis, Bernhard Plattner, Jonathan M. Smith, ...
Grids allow large scale resource-sharing across different administrative domains. Those diverse resources are likely to join or quit the Grid at any moment or possibly to break dow...
Francesc Guim, Ivan Rodero, M. Tomas, Julita Corba...
Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies (EPLT) [1] at the University of Washington maintains and supports a fleet of approximately 1,000 general-access student computin...
Traditional parallel programming styles have many problems which hinder the development of parallel applications. The message passing style can be too complex for many programmers...