Video-on-demand (VoD) is increasingly popular with Internet users. It gives users greater choice and more control than live streaming or file downloading. Systems such as MSN Vid...
The Cell processor is a heterogeneous multi-core processor with one Power Processing Engine (PPE) core and eight Synergistic Processing Engine (SPE) cores. Each SPE has a directly...
Kevin O'Brien, Kathryn M. O'Brien, Zehra Sura, Ton...
This paper is structured as follows. Section 2 gives an architectural description of BlueGene/L. Section 3 analyzes the issue of “computational noise” – the effect that the o...
Kei Davis, Adolfy Hoisie, Greg Johnson, Darren J. ...
Modeling and simulation of very large systems introduces a number of issues that are not seen in the modeling of simpler systems. These arise because the resource requirements for...
We reduce JavaScript to a core calculus structured as a small-step operational semantics. We present several peculiarities of the language and show that our calculus models them. W...