Traditional parallel programming styles have many problems which hinder the development of parallel applications. The message passing style can be too complex for many programmers...
Peer-to-peer networking is a hot buzzword that has been sweeping through the computing industry over the past year or so. Gnutella, as one of the first operational pure P2P systems...
This case study looks at the issues involved in operating a sophisticated scientific instrument as a computer peripheral accessible over a high-speed network. A custom interactive...
Philip J. Mercurio, T. Todd Elvins, Stephen J. You...
Two decades of microprocessor architecture driven by quantitative 90/10 optimization has delivered an extraordinary 1000-fold improvement in microprocessor performance, enabled by...
MPI is the main standard for communication in high-performance clusters. MPI implementations use the Eager protocol to transfer small messages. To avoid the cost of memory registr...