In the last decade, cluster computing has become the most popular high-performance computing architecture. Although numerous technological innovations have been proposed to improv...
DropNotes is a note-passing system for informal sharing of information within a small group or for posting notes to oneself. Its goal is to improve collaboration by increasing awa...
On a distributed memory machine, hand-coded message passing leads to the most efficient execution, but it is difficult to use. Parallelizing compilers can approach the performance...
Overlapping computation with communication is a key technique to conceal the effect of communication latency on the performance of parallel applications. MPI is a widely used mess...
High performance application development remains challenging, particularly for scientists making the transition to a Grid environment. In general areas of computing, virtual envir...