IP multicast has fueled an assortment of large-scale applications over the Internet ranging from interactive video conferencing to whiteboards to video recording on-demand systems...
We study the issue of performance prediction on the SGIPower Challenge, a typical SMP. On such a platform, the cost of memory accesses depends on their locality and on contention ...
Nancy M. Amato, Jack Perdue, Mark M. Mathis, Andre...
In this paper, we propose a novel hardware caching technique, called switch directory, to reduce the communication latency in CC-NUMA multiprocessors. The main idea is to implemen...
Distributed application programmers rely on middleware such as CORBA in order to handle the complexity that arises from the distributed and heterogeneous nature of the underlying ...
As new technologies create smaller, cheaper and faster machines, we see a paradigm shift from desktop computing to wearable computing. In less than a decade, we have witnessed the...
Jennifer G. Sheridan, Valerie Lafond-Favieres, Wen...