This paper introduces Pact, a new model for parallel heuristic programming on MIMD machines. Designed and implemented as an integrated tool environment, Pact allows the user to dev...
lmbench is a micro-benchmark suite designed to focus attention on the basic building blocks of many common system applications, such as databases, simulations, software developmen...
Virtual machines (VM) are promising as system software in sensor networks. A major impediment to their widespread acceptance is their performance overhead. Compiling VM bytecode to...
Joel Koshy, Ingwar Wirjawan, Raju Pandey, Yann Ram...
Background: Environmental sequence datasets are increasing at an exponential rate; however, the vast majority of them lack appropriate descriptors like sampling location, time and...
Wolfgang Hankeln, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Dennis Fin...
There is a growing sentiment among academics in computing that a shift to multicore processors in commodity computers will demand that all programmers become parallel programmers....