The growing computational and storage needs of several scientific applications mandate the deployment of extreme-scale parallel machines, such as IBM’s Blue Gene/L which can acc...
Because of the growing use of multimedia content over Internet, Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has recently received a lot of interest. While accurate search techniques base...
Virtual machine distributed computing greatly simplifies the use of widespread computing resources by lowering the abstraction, benefiting both resource providers and users. Tow...
Ananth I. Sundararaj, Ashish Gupta, Peter A. Dinda
In 2002, Japan announced the Earth Simulator—a supercomputer based on low-volume vector processors and a custom network—and reported that computational scientists had used it ...
Multi-core processors are coming, and we need ways to program them. The combination of purely-functional programming and explicit, monadic threads, communicating using transaction...