The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...
ion suffices ("decide which type you want and provide a full set of operations for each type"). If the application domain is, say, the administration of a university, the...
It is envisaged that the grid infrastructure will be a large-scale distributed software system that will provide high-end computational and storage capabilities to differentiated ...
Junwei Cao, Daniel P. Spooner, James D. Turner, St...
Dependable distributed systems are difficult to build. This is particularly true if they have dependability requirements that change during the execution of an application, and are...
Michel Cukier, Jennifer Ren, Chetan Sabnis, David ...
Despite using high-speed network interconnection systems like InfiniBand, the communication overhead for parallel applications is still high. In this paper we show, how such costs...
Robert Rex, Frank Mietke, Wolfgang Rehm, Christoph...