Grid systems such as Globus, Legion, and Globe provide an infrastructure for implementing metacomputing over the Internet. The Component Architecture Toolkit (CAT) provides a soft...
Juan E. Villacis, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, David S...
This paper examines two Network Interface Card microarchitectures that support low latency, high bandwidth userlevel message passing in multi-user environments. The two are at dif...
Boon Seong Ang, Derek Chiou, Larry Rudolph, Arvind
The email volume per mailbox has largely remained low and unchanged in the past several decades, and hence mail server performance has largely remained a secondary issue. The stee...
Abhinav Pathak, Syed Ali Raza Jafri, Y. Charlie Hu
The paper presents a high-performance architecture of the bit-plane coder for the embedded block coding algorithm in JPEG 2000. The architecture adopts a pipeline structure and is...
Operating Systems provide services that are accessed by processes via mechanisms that involve a ring transition to transfer control to the kernel where the required function is pe...