With the increasing use of large image and video archives and high-resolution multimedia data streams in many of today’s research and application areas, there is a growing need f...
This paper presents the Esperanto Broker, a communication platform for nomadic computing applications. By using this broker, developers can model application components as a set of...
I propose a set of criteria which distinguish a grand challenge in science or engineering from the many other kinds of short-term or long-term research problems that engage the int...
In this paper, we provide examples of how thread-level speculation (TLS) simplifies manual parallelization and enhances its performance. A number of techniques for manual parallel...
The Parallel-Horus framework, developed at the University of Amsterdam, is a unique software architecture that allows non-expert parallel programmers to develop fully sequential m...
Frank J. Seinstra, Cees Snoek, Dennis Koelma, Jan-...