: Mobile agent structuring is an increasingly practiced branch of distributed computing software engineering. In this paper we discuss the major issues encountered in producing rea...
A quantitative comparison of the BSP and LogP models of parallel computation is developed. We concentrate on a variant of LogP that disallows the so-called stalling behavior, alth...
Gianfranco Bilardi, Kieran T. Herley, Andrea Pietr...
As supercomputers are being built from an ever increasing number of processing elements, the effort required to achieve a substantial fraction of the system peak performance is con...
Since networks and computing systems are vital components of today's life, it is of utmost importance to endow them with the capability to survive physical and logical faults...
Software or hardware data cache prefetching is an efficient way to hide cache miss latency. However effectiveness of the issued prefetches have to be monitored in order to maximi...