In a future networked physical world, a myriad of smart sensors and actuators assess and control aspects of their environments and autonomously act in response to it. Examples ran...
Traditional GISystems are no longer appropriate for modern distributed, heterogeneous network environments due to their closed architecture, and their lack of interoperability, reu...
There is an emergence of cloud application platforms such as Microsoft’s Azure, Google’s App Engine and Amazon’s EC2/SimpleDB/S3. Startups and Enterprise alike, lured by the...
Science is becoming data-intensive, requiring new software architectures that can exploit resources at all scales: local GPUs for interactive visualization, server-side multi-core ...
Keith Grochow, Bill Howe, Mark Stoermer, Roger S. ...
Abstract— In this work, we demonstrate the power of providing a common set of operating system services to Grid Architectures, including high-performance I/O, communication, reso...