We describe the use of component architecture in an area to which this approach has not been classically applied, the area of cluster system software. By "cluster system soft...
Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, Ewing L. Lusk, Ralf ...
The concept of design patterns has recently emerged as a new paradigm in the context of object-oriented design methodology. Similar ideas are being explored in other areas of compu...
For regular, sparse, linear systems, like those derived from regular grids, using High Performance Fortran (HPF) for iterative solvers is straightforward. However, for irregular ma...
Idle desktops have been successfully used to run sequential and master-slave task parallel codes on a large scale in the context of volunteer computing. However, execution of messa...
Security is a fundamental precondition for the acceptance of mobile agent systems. In this paper we discuss protocols to improve agent security by distributing critical data and op...