One of the main advantages of using a scientific workflow management system (SWfMS) to orchestrate data flows among scientific activities is to control and register the whole work...
Eduardo S. Ogasawara, Daniel de Oliveira, Fernando...
Mega grids span several continents and may consist of millions of nodes and billions of tasks executing at any point in time. This setup calls for scalable and highly available re...
Mobile clients retrieve and update databases at servers. They use transactions in order to ensure the consistency of shared data in the presence of concurrent accesses. Transactio...
IlYoung Chung, Bharat K. Bhargava, Malika Mahoui, ...
Deadlock is an increasingly pressing concern as the multicore revolution forces parallel programming upon the average programmer. Existing approaches to deadlock impose onerous bu...
Solid-state disks are currently based on NAND flash and expose a standard disk interface. To accommodate limitations of the medium, solid-state disk implementations avoid rewritin...