An electronic cash system allows users to withdraw coins, represented as bit strings, from a bank or broker, and spend those coins anonymously at participating merchants, so that ...
Ivan Osipkov, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Nicholas Hopper...
On modern computers, the performance of programs is often limited by memory latency rather than by processor cycle time. To reduce the impact of memory latency, the restructuring ...
Induprakas Kodukula, Keshav Pingali, Robert Cox, D...
We claim that network services can be transparently added to existing unmodified applications running inside virtual machine environments. Examples of these network services inclu...
Abstract. The actor model provides high-level concurrency abstractions to coordinate simultaneous computations by message passing. Languages implementing the actor model such as Er...
Martin Sulzmann, Edmund S. L. Lam, Peter Van Weert
Efficient data storage, a major concern in the modern computer industry, is mostly provided today by the the traditional magnetic disk. Unfortunately the cost of a disk transfer m...