Synchronous groupware is the class of applications in which two or more people collaborate in what they perceive to be real time. Most previous efforts to deploy synchronous group...
Protocols which can tolerate any number of processors failing by ceasing operation for an unbounded number of steps and resuming operation (with or) without knowing that they were...
Synchronization is often necessary in parallel computing, but it can create delays whenever the receiving processor is idle, waiting for the information to arrive. This is especia...
We propose an object-oriented framework for one of the most frequent and costly operations in parallel database systems: the parallel join. The framework independently captures a ...