LOFAR is the first of a new generation of radio telescopes. Rather than using expensive dishes, it forms a distributed sensor network that combines the signals from many thousands...
John W. Romein, P. Chris Broekema, Jan David Mol, ...
Many large-scale production parallel programs often run for a very long time and require data checkpoint periodically to save the state of the computation for program restart and/o...
Wei-keng Liao, Kenin Coloma, Alok N. Choudhary, Le...
Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...
This paper explores area/parallelism tradeo s in the design of distributed shared-memory (DSM) multiprocessors built out of large single-chip computing nodes. In this context, are...
Originally devoted to specific applications such as biology, medicine and demography, duration models are now widely used in economy, finance or reliability. Recent works in var...
Roland Donat, Philippe Leray, Laurent Bouillaut, P...