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HPDC
1997
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Secure Communications Infrastructure for High-Performance Distributed Computing
We describe a software infrastructure designed to support the development of applications that use high-speed networks to connect geographically distributed supercomputers, databa...
Ian T. Foster, Nicholas T. Karonis, Carl Kesselman...
CHI
2000
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
curlybot: designing a new class of computational toys
We introduce an educational toy, called curlybot, as the basis for a new class of toys aimed at children in their early stages of development – ages four and up. curlybot is an ...
Phil Frei, Victor Su, Bakhtiar Mikhak, Hiroshi Ish...
WIOPT
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Saluki: A high-performance Wi-Fi sniffing program
Building a campus-wide wireless LAN measurement system faces many efficiency, scalability and security challenges. To address these challenges, we developed a distributed Wi-Fi sni...
Keren Tan, David Kotz
OOPSLA
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
X10: an object-oriented approach to non-uniform cluster computing
It is now well established that the device scaling predicted by Moore’s Law is no longer a viable option for increasing the clock frequency of future uniprocessor systems at the...
Philippe Charles, Christian Grothoff, Vijay A. Sar...
WMPI
2004
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Selective main memory compression by identifying program phase changes
During a program’s runtime, the stack and data segments of the main memory often contain much redundancy, which makes them good candidates for compression. Compression and decomp...
Doron Nakar, Shlomo Weiss