While commodity computing and graphics hardware has increased in capacity and dropped in cost, it is still quite difficult to make effective use of such systems for general-purpos...
E. Wes Bethel, Greg Humphreys, Brian E. Paul, J. D...
Firewalls are hardware and software systems that protect a network from attacks coming from the Internet. Packet filtering firewalls are efficient, fast and provide a good level o...
The development of a Distributed Information System (DIS) can lead to critical bottlenecks because of the underlying architecture, which is becoming more and more complex. Todays ...
Abstract—The adoption of new hardware and software architectures will make future generations of pervasive devices more flexible and extensible. Networks of computational nodes ...
Alberto Ferrante, Roberto Pompei, Anastasia Stulov...
Caches enhance the performance of multiprocessors by reducing network trac and average memory access latency. However, cache-based systems must address the problem of cache coher...