In this paper, we propose granularity as a new index to characterize the nonspecificity of a summative kernel. This index is intended to reflect the behavior of a kernel in the us...
Organizations are under increasing scrutiny to document their compliance to regulatory requirements. To this end, they have to formally document their operating procedures to supp...
A good object-oriented design does not necessarily make a good component-based design, and vice versa. What design principles do components introduce? This paper examines componen...
— OpenMP can be supported in cluster environments by using distributed shared memory (DSM) systems. A portable approach for building DSM systems is to layer it on MPI. With these...
The development of High-Performance Computing (HPC) programs is crucial to progress in many fields of scientific endeavor. We have run initial studies of the productivity of HPC d...