In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...
While microprocessor designers turn to multicore architectures to sustain performance expectations, the dramatic increase in parallelism of such architectures will put substantial...
Susmit Biswas, Diana Franklin, Alan Savage, Ryan D...
The allocation of office space in any large institution is usually a problematical issue, which often demands a substantial amount of time to perform manually. The result of this a...
Solid state drives perform random reads more than 100x faster than traditional magnetic hard disks, while offering comparable sequential read and write bandwidth. Because of their...
Current application development tools provide completely different programming models for the application server (e.g., Java and J2EE) and the client web browser (e.g., JavaScript...
Nicholas Gerner, Fan Yang 0002, Alan J. Demers, Jo...