Dryad is a general-purpose distributed execution engine for coarse-grain data-parallel applications. A Dryad application combines computational “vertices” with communication ...
Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrel...
Hypervisors, popularized by Xen and VMware, are quickly becoming commodity. They are appropriate for many usage scenarios, but there are scenarios that require system virtualizatio...
We propose a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. Our approach does not require dealing with message-passing protocols—a major complication in existing distri...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. S...
Although grid computing has adopted Web services technology to deal with platforms heterogeneity and to enhance service and application interoperability, it is still a challenge t...
Xiaohui Wei, Jishan Gao, Xiao lei Ding, Shutao Yua...
We present a generalized extensible framework for automated recognition of swarming activities in video sequences. The trajectory of each individual is produced by the visual trac...