While commodity computing and graphics hardware has increased in capacity and dropped in cost, it is still quite difficult to make effective use of such systems for general-purpos...
E. Wes Bethel, Greg Humphreys, Brian E. Paul, J. D...
The rapid growth of silicon densities has made it feasible to deploy reconfigurable hardware as a highly parallel computing platform. However, in most cases, the application needs...
Girish Venkataramani, Walid A. Najjar, Fadi J. Kur...
The match between a peer-to-peer overlay and the physical Internet infrastructure is a constant issue. Time-constrained peer-to-peer applications such as live streaming systems ar...
Ali Boudani, Yiping Chen, Gilles Straub, Gwendal S...
Graphic cards performance increase and fast Internet connections are popularising Networked Virtual Environments. This immature paradigm of real-time applications has still to sol...
The increasing availability of high-performance computing systems with thousands, tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of computational nodes is driving the demand fo...