Multiprocessors are now commonplace, and cloud computing is swiftly following suit. While it is possible to write high performance code for these systems, concurrency bugs are ext...
Modern scientific experiments can generate hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes or even petabytes of data that may furthermore be maintained in large numbers of relatively small fil...
Wantao Liu, Brian Tieman, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Ian...
Cluster computing environments built from commodity hardware have provided a cost-effective solution for many scientific and high-performance applications. Likewise, middleware te...
Snap-shot mechanisms are used to read a globally consistent set of variable values. Such a mechanism can be used to solve a variety of communication and synchronization problems, ...
Andreas Ermedahl, Hans Hansson, Marina Papatrianta...
Abstract— In this work, we demonstrate the power of providing a common set of operating system services to Grid Architectures, including high-performance I/O, communication, reso...