: The availability of enormous amounts of un-used computing power and data storage over the In-ternet makes the development of a globally distributed computing platform, called Ove...
Paolo Bertasi, Mauro Bianco, Andrea Pietracaprina,...
Abstract—Program performance optimisations, feedbackdirected iterative compilation and auto-tuning systems [1] all assume a fixed estimation of execution time given a fixed inp...
Abdelhafid Mazouz, Sid Ahmed Ali Touati, Denis Bar...
This paper introduces an object-passing model for parallel and distributed application development. Object passing provides the object-oriented application developer with powerful...
The client-server model has been successfully used to support a wide variety of families of services in the context of distributed systems. However, its server-centric nature make...
Effectively migrating sequential applications to take advantage of parallelism available on multicore platforms is a well-recognized challenge. This paper addresses important aspec...