As computing devices become ubiquitous and increasingly mobile, it is becoming apparent that the directed peerto-peer communication model has shortcomings for many forms of distri...
The Scientific Annotation Middleware (SAM) is a set of components and services that enable researchers, applications, problem solving environments (PSE) and software agents to cre...
Clusters of workstations are a popular alternative to integrated parallel systems designed and built by a vendor. Besides their huge cumulative processing power, they also provide...
The Compute Power Market (CPM) is a market-based resource management and job scheduling system for grid computing on Internet-wide computational resources, particularly low-end pe...
End-users of high-performance computing resources have come to expect that consistent levels of performance be delivered to their applications. The advancement of the Computationa...