The definition of a commodity component is quite obvious when it comes to the PC as a basic compute engine and building block for clusters of PCs. Looking at the options for a mo...
Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...
Advances in network performance and browser technologies, coupled with the ubiquity of internet access and proliferation of users, have lead to the emergence of a new class of web...
With the continuing growth in the amount of genetic data, members of the bioinformatics community are developing a variety of data-mining applications to understand the data and d...
The rapid revolution in microprocessor chip architecture due to multicore technology is presenting unprecedented challenges to the application developers as well as system softwar...