Recent studies have shown that programming in a Partition Global Address Space (PGAS) language can be more productive than programming in a message passing model. One reason for th...
A key characteristic of today’s high performance computing systems is a physically distributed memory, which makes the efficient management of locality essential for taking adv...
Background: Molecular biologists need sophisticated analytical tools which often demand extensive computational resources. While finding, installing, and using these tools can be ...
Metacomputing allows the exploitation of geographically seperate, heterogenous networks and resources. Most metacomputers are feature rich and carry a long, complicated installati...
End-user scripting languages are relatively easy to learn, but have limited expressive power. Tile-based scripting systems are particularly accessible to beginners, but usually ar...