We describe Spectra, a remote execution system for batterypowered clients used in pervasive computing. Spectra enables applications to combine the mobility of small devices with t...
Brewer and Kuszmaul [BK94] demonstrated how barriers and traffic interleaving can alleviate the problem of bulk-transfer performance degradation on the Thinking Machines CM-5, by ...
Eric A. Brewer, Paul Gauthier, Armando Fox, Angela...
Low-overhead message passing is critical to the performance of many applications. Active Messages[27] reduce the software overhead for message handling: messages are run as handle...
Deborah A. Wallach, Wilson C. Hsieh, Kirk L. Johns...
The concept of information landscapes has been a constant theme in the development of interactive multimedia packages. For the interface and access to this information to be effec...
John G. Hedberg, Barry Harper, Christine Brown, Ro...
We describe the Paraflow system for connecting heterogeneous computing services together into a flexible and efficient data-mining metacomputer. There are three levels of parallel...