Fault injection, a critical aspect of testing robust systems, is often overlooked in the development of generalpurpose software. We believe this is due to the absence of easy-to-u...
This paper evaluates the performance of three popular versions of the UNIX operating system on the x86 architecture: Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We evaluate the systems using fre...
Clock synchronization is a crucial basic service in typical sensor networks, since the observations of distributed sensors more often than not need to be ordered ("a happened...
The motivation and objective for this paper is to demonstrate “Personal High Performance Computing (PHPC)”, which requires only a smaller number of computers, resources and sp...
Rapid improvements in network bandwidth, cost, and ubiquity combined with the security hazards and high total cost of ownership of personal computers have created a growing market...