— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...
Image processing applications tend to access their data non-sequentially and reuse that data infrequently. As a result, they tend to perform poorly on conventional memory systems ...
Lixin Zhang, John B. Carter, Wilson C. Hsieh, Sall...
The inability to perform optimizations based on application-specific information presents a hurdle to the deployment of pervasive LAN file systems across WAN environments. This pa...
Process migration has been used to perform specialized tasks, such as load sharing and checkpoint/restarting long running applications. Implementation typically consists of modifi...
Body sensor networks (BSNs) have become a promising technology for healthcare, in which biosensors continuously monitor physiological parameters of a user. Distinct from conventio...
Yanmin Zhu, Sye Loong Keoh, Morris Sloman, Emil Lu...