State-of-the-art Massively Multiplayer Games such as EverQuest and Ultima Online are currently implemented as client-server systems. Although this approach allows the development ...
Parallel file subsystems in today’s high-performance computers adopt many I/O optimization strategies that were designed for distributed systems. These strategies, for instance...
Wei-keng Liao, Kenin Coloma, Alok N. Choudhary, Le...
A new application of tuple-space-based coordination systems is in knowledge communication and representation. This knowledge is being published on the Web (the so-called “Semant...
Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Robert Tolksdorf, Alan Wood, R...
Abstract. Accurately modeling and predicting performance for largescale applications becomes increasingly difficult as system complexity scales dramatically. Analytic predictive mo...
Engin Ipek, Bronis R. de Supinski, Martin Schulz, ...
This article is intended as an update of the major survey by Max [40] on optical models for direct volume rendering. It provides a brief overview of the subject scope covered by [...