Broad web search engines as well as many more specialized search tools rely on web crawlers to acquire large collections of pages for indexing and analysis. Such a web crawler may...
Video on Demand (VoD) services are very appealing these days. In this work, we discuss four distinct alternatives for the architecture of a VoD server and compare their performanc...
Daniela Alvim Seabra dos Santos, Alex Borges Vieir...
This paper is structured as follows. Section 2 gives an architectural description of BlueGene/L. Section 3 analyzes the issue of “computational noise” – the effect that the o...
Kei Davis, Adolfy Hoisie, Greg Johnson, Darren J. ...
Redundancy can improve the availability of components in service-oriented systems. However, predicting and quantifying the effects of different redundancy strategies can be a comp...
Abstract. Image processing is widely used in many applications, including medical imaging, industrial manufacturing and security systems. In these applications, the size of the ima...