As Web Services have matured they have been substantially leveraged within the academic, research and business communities. An exemplar of this is the realignment, last year, of t...
Parallel programmers typically assume that all resources required for a program’s execution are dedicated to that purpose. However, in local and wide area networks, contention f...
Alain J. Roy, Ian T. Foster, William Gropp, Nichol...
As high-speed networks make it easier to use distributed resources, it becomes increasingly common that applications and their data are not colocated. Users have traditionally add...
Ian T. Foster, David Kohr, Rakesh Krishnaiyer, Jac...
Abstract—Some processors designed for consumer applications, such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and the CELL processor, promise outstanding floating-point performance for ...
The robust operation of many sensor network applications depends on deploying relays to ensure wireless coverage. Radio mapping aims to predict network coverage based on a small n...