To support multimedia applications in mobile environments, it will be necessary for applications to be aware of the underlying environmental conditions, and also to be able to ada...
Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Anders Andersen, L...
To understand the performance of modern Java systems one must observe execution in the context of specific architectures. It is also important that we make these observations usi...
J. Eliot B. Moss, Charles C. Weems, Timothy Richar...
On a distributed memory machine, hand-coded message passing leads to the most efficient execution, but it is difficult to use. Parallelizing compilers can approach the performance...
This paper presents Abacus, a service-oriented programming language designed for the development of grid applications. Abacus considers that all the grid resources constitute a un...
The goal of High Performance Fortran (HPF) is to "address the problems of writing data parallel programs where the distribution of data affects performance", providing t...
Siegfried Benkner, Piyush Mehrotra, John Van Rosen...