Contracts and specifications have long been used in object-oriented design, programming and testing to enhance reliability before software deployment. However, the use of specifica...
A practical problem faced by users of metacomputers and computational grids is: If my computation can move from one system to another, how can I ensure that my data will still be ...
Abstract—Modern day enterprises have a large IT infrastructure comprising thousands of applications running on servers housed in tens of data centers geographically spread out. T...
Rahul Singh, Prashant J. Shenoy, K. K. Ramakrishna...
Transactional memory promises to make parallel programming easier than with fine-grained locking, while performing just as well. This performance claim is not always borne out bec...
Abstract. This article presents the C++ library vShark which reduces the intranode communication overhead of parallel programs on clusters of SMPs. The library is built on top of m...