Cycle-harvesting systems such as Condor have been developed to make desktop machines in a local area (which are often similar to clusters in hardware configuration) available as ...
A key challenge in supporting data-driven scientific applications is the storage and management of input and output data in a distributed environment. In this paper, we describe a...
Stephen Langella, Shannon Hastings, Scott Oster, T...
This paper reports the development of the Concerto platform, which is dedicated to supporting the deployment of parallel adaptive components on clusters of workstations. The curre...
With the advent of multi-core processors, desktop application developers must finally face parallel computing and its challenges. A large portion of the computational load in a p...
The development and wider use of wireless networks and mobile devices has led to novel pervasive computing environments which pose new problems for software rights management and ...