Every computer needs a timer mechanism to keep track of current time and also for various accounting purposes such as calculating the time spent by a process in CPU utilization, di...
Synchronous data-flow languages such as Scade/Lustre manage infinite sequences, or streams, as primitive values making them naturally adapted to the description of datadominated s...
Data-centric synchronization groups fields of objects into atomic sets to indicate they must be updated atomically. Each atomic set has associated units of work, code fragments th...
Mandana Vaziri, Frank Tip, Julian Dolby, Christian...
We present a novel adaptive synchronization algorithm, called the minimum average cost (MAC) algorithm, in the context of the ParaSol parallel simulation system. ParaSol is a mult...
Transfers of high-quality multimedia content pose new demands on capacity and services provided by the contemporary high-speed computer networks. Transfer of stereoscopic video is...