The actor model has already proven itself as an interesting concurrency model that avoids issues such as deadlocks and race conditions by construction, and thus facilitates concur...
Rapid commoditization of advanced hardware and progress of networking technology is now making wide area high-performance computing a.k.a. the ‘Grid’ Computing a reality. Sinc...
good data partitioning scheme is the need of the time. However it is very diflcult to arrive at a good solution as the number of possible dutupartitionsfor a given real lifeprogra...
Multiple threads running in a single, shared address space is a simple model for writing parallel programs for symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) machines and for overlapping I/O and ...
Parallel programmers typically assume that all resources required for a program’s execution are dedicated to that purpose. However, in local and wide area networks, contention f...
Alain J. Roy, Ian T. Foster, William Gropp, Nichol...