The memory overhead introduced by directories constitutes a major hurdle in the scalability of cc-NUMA architectures, which makes the shared-memory paradigm unfeasible for very la...
We present PIO-HMMER, an enhanced version of MPI-HMMER. PIO-HMMER improves on MPIHMMER’s scalability through the use of parallel I/O and a parallel file system. In addition, we...
A lease is a token which grants its owner exclusive access to a resource for a defined span of time. In order to be able to tolerate failures, leases need to be coordinated by di...
— In order for humanoid robots to perform skillful tasks, a reliable and scalable computing system that supports hard real-time processing is required. This paper describes a fiv...
In many computer games narrative is a core component with the game centering on an unfolding, interactive storyline which both motivates and is driven by the game-play. Analyzing n...