The contour generator is an important visibility feature of a smooth object seen under parallel projection. It is the curve on the surface which seperates front-facing regions fro...
We consider the use of a cluster of PC servers for Application Service Providers where applications and databases must remain autonomous. We use data replication to improve data av...
Thread migration/checkpointing is becoming indispensable for load balancing and fault tolerance in high performance computing applications, and its success depends on the migration...
Traditional data-oriented programming languages such as dataflow s and stream languages provide a natural abstraction for parallel programming. In these languages, a developer fo...
A principle task in parallel and distributed systems is to reduce the communication load in the interconnection network, as this is usually the major bottleneck for the performanc...