SBASCO provides a new programming model for parallel and distributed numerical applications which exploits the combination of software components and skeletons. This paper present...
One of the outcomes of DARPA’s HPCS program has been the creation of three new high productivity languages: Chapel, Fortress, and X10. While these languages have introduced impro...
Previous experiments with high-performance Java were initially disappointing. After several years of optimization, this paper investigates the current suitability of such object-o...
—The 64-bit OS provides ample memory address space that is beneficial for applications using a large amount of data. This paper proposes using a cluster as a memory resource for...
As high performance clusters continue to grow in size, the mean time between failure shrinks. Thus, the issues of fault tolerance and reliability are becoming one of the challengi...