Parallel NFS (pNFS) is an emergent open standard for parallelizing data transfer over a variety of I/O protocols. Prototypes of pNFS are actively being developed by industry and a...
We assert that in order to perform well, a shared-memory multiprocessorinter-process communication (IPC)facility mustavoid a) accessing any shared data, and b) acquiring any locks...
The advent of cloud computing provides a cheap and convenient mechanism for scientists to share data. The utility of such data is obviously enhanced when the provenance of the dat...
Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Peter Macko, Margo I....
Software systems are designed and engineered to process data. However, software is data too. The size and variety of today's software artifacts and the multitude of stakehold...
Decision support systems (DSS) may be enhanced qualitatively if they are able to also deal with spatial dimensions and measures. Regardless the evident importance of using data wa...
Marcus Costa Sampaio, Andre Gomes de Sousa, Cl&aac...