We use the term “Grid” to refer to a software system that provides uniform and location independent access to geographically and organizationally dispersed, heterogeneous reso...
William E. Johnston, Dennis Gannon, Bill Nitzberg,...
This paper describes the uses and architecture of a network-centered computing-rich software platform called PowerWeb. PowerWeb was designed and built as a simulation environment ...
Ray Zimmerman, Robert J. Thomas, Deqiang Gan, Carl...
In rapidly growing open environments such as the Internet, users experience information starvation in the midst of data overload, due to di culties similar to nding the needle in a...
Abstract. In this article we elaborate on portability in componentbased operating systems, focusing in the hardware mediator construct proposed by Frhlich in the Application-Orient...
Caches enhance the performance of multiprocessors by reducing network trac and average memory access latency. However, cache-based systems must address the problem of cache coher...