The underlying model of distributed systems is that of loosely coupled components r running in parallel and communicating by message passing. Description, construction and evoluti...
Internet data centers (IDCs) perform multi-customer hosting on a virtualized collection of resources while Grid computing generalizes distributed computing by focusing on large sc...
In recent years, microprocessor manufacturers have shifted their focus from single-core to multi-core processors. To avoid burdening programmers with the responsibility of paralle...
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Peta-scale scientific applications running on High End Computing (HEC) platforms can generate large volumes of data. For high performance storage and in order to be useful to scien...
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Software frequently needs to adapt its behavior at run time to respond to changes in its execution environment. Different software components may use different approaches to adap...
Zhenxiao Yang, Zhinan Zhou, Betty H. C. Cheng, Phi...