With over half a billion users, Online Social Networks (OSNs) are the major new applications on the Internet. Little information is available on the network impact of OSNs, althou...
Abstract. In order to take full advantage of high-end computing platforms, scientific applications often require modifications to source codes, and to their build systems that ge...
Technology scaling has offered advantages to embedded systems, such as increased performance, more available memory and reduced energy consumption. However, scaling also brings a...
IPTV has emerged as the future standard of television and drawn enormous attention from both industry and research communities. Among different IPTV services, on-demand services a...
As the number of I/O-intensive MPI programs becomes increasingly large, many efforts have been made to improve I/O performance, on both software and architecture sides. On the sof...