Contemporary computing infrastructure, such as networking stacks, OS and middleware, are made up of layers of software functionality that have evolved over decades to support the ...
In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...
Performance analysis tools are critical for the effective use of large parallel computing resources, but existing tools have failed to address three problems that limit their scal...
State-of-the-art networked storage servers are equipped with increasingly powerful computing capability and large DRAM memory as storage caches. However, their contribution to the...
As Web Services have matured they have been substantially leveraged within the academic, research and business communities. An exemplar of this is the realignment, last year, of t...