Metacomputing infrastructures couple multiple clusters (or MPPs) via wide-area networks. A major problem in programming parallel applications for such platforms is their hierarchi...
Traditional client-server content distribution techniques usually suffer from scalability problems when dealing with large client population or sizable content. The advent of peer...
—The Internet has become a cost-effective vehicle for software development and release, particular in the free software community. Given the free nature of this software, there a...
In this paper, we present techniques and algorithms to improve the performance of various communication patterns on message-passing platforms where, for reasons of safety, user-le...
In a variety of applications, ranging from data integration to distributed query evaluation, there is a need to obtain sets of data items from several sources (peers) and compute ...