Abstract. Programming multimedia applications for System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures is difficult because streaming communication, user event handling, reconfiguration, and paralle...
The first decades of the new millennium will witness an explosive growth in the number and diversity of networked devices and portals. We foresee high degrees of mobility, hetero...
Fabio Kon, Roy H. Campbell, M. Dennis Mickunas, Kl...
Current and emerging high-performance parallel computer architectures generally implement one of two types of communication mechanisms: shared memory (SM) or message passing (MP)....
In recent years, we have seen a dramatic increase in the use of data-centric distributed systems such as global grid infrastructures, sensor networks, network monitoring, and vari...
Voluntary Computing systems or Desktop Grids (DGs) enable sharing of commodity computing resources across the globe and have gained tremendous popularity among scientific research...