Mobile computers such as notebooks, subnotebooks, and palmtops require low weight, low power consumption, and good interactive performance. These requirements impose many challeng...
The explosion of data in the biological community demands the development of more scalable and flexible portals for bioinformatic computation. To address this need, we put forth c...
Rory Carmichael, Patrick Braga-Henebry, Douglas Th...
We consider a system of compute and storage resources geographically distributed over a large number of locations connected via a wide-area network. By distributing the resources,...
Moritz Steiner, Bob Gaglianello Gaglianello, Vijay...
Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...
User interfaces form a critical coupling between humans and computers. When the interface fails, the user fails, and the mission is lost. For example, in computer security applica...