Map-reduce framework has received a significant attention and is being used for programming both large-scale clusters and multi-core systems. While the high productivity aspect of ...
—In an attempt to increase the performance/cost ratio, large compute clusters are becoming heterogeneous at multiple levels: from asymmetric processors, to different system archi...
MapReduce has been widely used for large-scale data analysis in the Cloud. The system is well recognized for its elastic scalability and fine-grained fault tolerance although its...
Desktop Grids represent an alternative trend in Grid computing using the same software infrastructure as Volunteer Computing projects, such as BOINC. Applications to be deployed o...
Pen-based interfaces offer exciting opportunities in ubiquitous computing by enabling new hardware form factors and socially acceptable computing tasks. However, prevailing ink re...