—It is clear that Cloud computing is and will be a sea change for the Information Technology by changing the way in which both software and hardware are designed and purchased. I...
Desktop Grids represent an alternative trend in Grid computing using the same software infrastructure as Volunteer Computing projects, such as BOINC. Applications to be deployed o...
To be able to fully exploit ever larger computing platforms, modern HPC applications and system software must be able to tolerate inevitable faults. Historically, MPI implementati...
Joshua Hursey, Jeffrey M. Squyres, Timothy Mattox,...
We present a quality management method for multimedia applications. The method takes as input an application software composed of actions. The execution times of actions are unkno...
Jacques Combaz, Jean-Claude Fernandez, Joseph Sifa...
Rapid advancement of communication technology has changed the landscape of computing. New models of computing, such as business-on-demand, Web services, peer-to-peer networks, and...