Future high-end computers will offer great performance improvements over today’s machines, enabling applications of far greater complexity. However, designers must solve the cha...
Guang R. Gao, Kevin B. Theobald, Ziang Hu, Haiping...
Abstract. Existing middleware is based on control-flow centric interaction models such as remote method invocations, poorly matching the structure of applications that process con...
Rainer Koster, Andrew P. Black, Jie Huang, Jonatha...
This paper describes user modelling in I-Help, a system to facilitate communication amongst learners. There are two I-Help components: Private and Public Discussions. In the Privat...
Susan Bull, Jim E. Greer, Gordon I. McCalla, Lori ...
Parallel programs that modify shared data in a cachecoherent multiprocessor with a write-invalidate coherence protocol create ownership overhead in the form of ownership acquisiti...
Only a handful of fundamental mechanisms for synchronizing the access of concurrent threads to shared memory are widely implemented and used. These include locks, condition variab...