Object-oriented, concurrent, and event-based programming models provide a natural framework in which to express the behavior of distributed and embedded software systems. However,...
Johan Nordlander, Mark P. Jones, Magnus Carlsson, ...
Commodity computer clusters are often composed of hundreds of computing nodes. These generally off-the-shelf systems are not designed for high reliability. Node failures therefore...
Overlapping communication with computation is an important optimization on current cluster architectures; its importance is likely to increase as the doubling of processing power ...
Wei-Yu Chen, Dan Bonachea, Costin Iancu, Katherine...
As wide-area open networks like the Internet and intranets grow larger, mobile agent technology is attracting more attention. Mobile agents are units of software that can deal wit...
Network performance in tightly-coupled multiprocessors typically degrades rapidly beyond network saturation. Consequently, designers must keep a network below its saturation point...
Mithuna Thottethodi, Alvin R. Lebeck, Shubhendu S....