With the increasing number of processors in modern HPC(High Performance Computing) systems, there are two emergent problems to solve. One is scalability, the other is fault tolera...
Recently, there has been considerable interest in providing “trusted computing platforms” using hardware — TCPA and Palladium being the most publicly visible examples. In th...
David Lie, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Mark Horowitz
There is a well-recognised need in diverse applications for reasoning with multiple, potentially inconsistent sources of information. One approach is to represent each source of i...
In the last years, lots of work have been devoted to multidimensional modeling, star shape schemas and OLAP operations. However, “drill-across” has not captured as much attent...
Shared Memory is an interesting communication paradigm for SMP machines and clusters. Weak consistency models have been proposed to improve efficiency of shared memory applications...