The overhead of copying data through the central processor by a message passing protocol limits data transfer bandwidth. If the network interface directly transfers the user'...
Hiroshi Tezuka, Francis O'Carroll, Atsushi Hori, Y...
Cluster computing environments built from commodity hardware have provided a cost-effective solution for many scientific and high-performance applications. Likewise, middleware te...
Software fine-grain distributed shared memory (FGDSM) provides a simplified shared-memory programming interface with minimal or no hardware support. Originally software FGDSMs tar...
Ioannis Schoinas, Babak Falsafi, Mark D. Hill, Jam...
Performance Oriented Distributed Operating System (PODOS) is a clustering environment, being built on a monolithic Linux kernel. PODOS augments very few components to the Linux ke...
Robot projects are often evolutionary dead ends, with the software and hardware they produce disappearing without trace afterwards. Common causes include dependencies on uncommon ...
Paul M. Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale