Component-based software structuring principles are now commonly and successfully applied at the application level; but componentisation is far less established when it comes to b...
Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair, Paul Grace, Fran&c...
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems have made an enormous impact on the Internet, directly affecting its performance and security. The litigation against P2P file sharing has led some desi...
Abstract--Thermal issues are fast becoming major design constraints in high-performance systems. Temperature variations adversely affect system reliability and prompt worst-case de...
Amit Kumar 0002, Li Shang, Li-Shiuan Peh, Niraj K....
We present a method to verify the correctness of parallel programs that perform complex numerical computations, including computations involving floating-point arithmetic. The me...
Stephen F. Siegel, Anastasia Mironova, George S. A...
—We describe a system-level simulation model and show that it enables accurate predictions of both I/O subsystem and overall system performance. In contrast, the conventional app...