Heterogeneous distributed computing platforms continue to require substantial effort in terms of software installation and management for efficient use, often necessitating manua...
For decades, the high-performance computing (HPC) community has focused on performance, where performance is defined as speed. To achieve better performance per compute node, mic...
A Grid computing system is a virtual resource framework. Inside the framework, resources are being shared among autonomous domains which can be geographically distributed. One prim...
Service-based distributed computing as a mode of resource sharing is receiving increased attention, motivated both by enterprise applications and by standardization efforts in the...
Dawid Kurzyniec, Tomasz Wrzosek, Vaidy S. Sunderam
To be widely adopted, location-aware computing must be as effortless, familiar and rewarding as web search tools like Google. We envisage the global scale Place Lab, consisting of...
Bill N. Schilit, Anthony LaMarca, Gaetano Borriell...