PC grids represent massive computation capacity at a low cost, but are challenging to employ for parallel computing because of variable and unpredictable performance and availabili...
Nagarajan Kanna, Jaspal Subhlok, Edgar Gabriel, Es...
— Over the years, the use of global grid environments have become widespread. In order to make applications robust against the dynamics of those grid environments it is essential...
As processor speeds rapidly approach the Giga-Hertz regime, the disparity between process time and memory access time plays an increasing role in the overall limitation of processo...
— Multiprocessors on a chip are the reality of these days. Semiconductor industry has recognized this approach as the most efficient in order to exploit chip resources, but the ...
Antonino Tumeo, Marco Branca, Lorenzo Camerini, Ma...
Over the last twenty years the interfaces for accessing persistent storage within a computer system have remained essentially unchanged. Simply put, seek, read and write have de...
Xiangyong Ouyang, David W. Nellans, Robert Wipfel,...