Network of workstation (NOW) is a cost-effective alternative to massively parallel supercomputers. As commercially available off-the-shelf processors become cheaper and faster, ...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
Despite using high-speed network interconnection systems like InfiniBand, the communication overhead for parallel applications is still high. In this paper we show, how such costs...
Robert Rex, Frank Mietke, Wolfgang Rehm, Christoph...
Converged fabrics that support data, storage, and cluster networking in a unified fashion are desirable for their cost and manageability advantages. Recent trends towards higher-b...
Kevin Leigh, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Jaspal Sub...
— Computer supported collaboration systems, or groupware, are being used more and more in the real life. In the recent years, we are witnessing an increasing demand for supportin...