Concurrency control in Smalltalk is based on locks and is therefore notoriously difficult to use. Even though some implementations provide high-level constructs, these add complexi...
Many sensor nodes contain resource constrained microcontrollers where user level applications, operating system components, and device drivers share a single address space with no...
Cloud computing systems fundamentally provide access to large pools of data and computational resources through a variety of interfaces similar in spirit to existing grid and HPC ...
Daniel Nurmi, Richard Wolski, Chris Grzegorczyk, G...
We describe a software infrastructure designed to support the development of applications that use high-speed networks to connect geographically distributed supercomputers, databa...
Ian T. Foster, Nicholas T. Karonis, Carl Kesselman...
The Java programming language has gained increasing importance for the development of embedded systems. To be cost efficient, such systems have to cope with significant hardware...