Parallel programmers typically assume that all resources required for a program’s execution are dedicated to that purpose. However, in local and wide area networks, contention f...
Alain J. Roy, Ian T. Foster, William Gropp, Nichol...
Shared-memory provides a uniform and attractive mechanism for communication. For efficiency, it is often implemented with a layer of interpretive hardware on top of a message-pas...
Thanks to recent advances in virtualization technologies, it is now possible to benefit from the flexibility brought by virtual machines at little cost in terms of CPU performance....
This paper examines how users negotiate their self-presentation via an avatar used in social media. Twenty participants customised an avatar while thinking aloud. An analysis of t...
Application development for distributed-computing ``Grids'' can benefit from tools that variously hide or enable application-level management of critical aspects of the ...
Nicholas T. Karonis, Brian R. Toonen, Ian T. Foste...