Many existing clusters use inexpensive Gigabit Ethernet and often have multiple interfaces cards to improve bandwidth and enhance fault tolerance. We investigate the use of Concurr...
Brad Penoff, Mike Tsai, Janardhan R. Iyengar, Alan...
Developing computer systems that are both concurrent and evolving is challenging. To guarantee consistent access to resources by concurrent software components, some synchronizatio...
Although distributed object systems, for example RMI and CORBA, enable object-oriented programs to be easily distributed across a network, achieving acceptable performance usually...
Traditional DMA requires the operating system to perform many tasks to initiate a transfer, with overhead on the order of hundreds or thousands of CPU instructions. This paper des...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. F...
Malleability enables a parallel application’s execution system to split or merge processes modifying granularity. While process migration is widely used to adapt applications to...
Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Travis J. Desell, Boleslaw K...