The continuously increasing complexity of computer animationsmakes it necessary to rely on the knowledge of various experts to cover the different areas of computer graphics and a...
A suitable software architecture –for example in the area of distributed application– can be composed of known-to-work solutions. These are also known as design patterns. Howev...
Scalability and reliability are inseparable in high-performance computing. Fault-isolation through hardware is a popular means of providing reliability. Unfortunately, such isolat...
RSVP is a bandwidth reservation protocol that allows distributed real-time applications such as video-conferencing software to make bandwidth reservations over packetswitched netw...
Recent technological advances have produced network interfaces that provide users with very low-latency access to the memory of remote machines. We examine the impact of such netw...
Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, Galen C. Hunt, Robert ...