— Millions of residential users are widely served by cable or DSL connections with modest upload bandwidth and relatively high download bandwidth. For the increasingly important ...
—Clusters and applications continue to grow in size while their mean time between failure (MTBF) is getting smaller. Checkpoint/Restart is becoming increasingly important for lar...
Abstract—As programmers are asked to manage more complicated parallel machines, it is likely that they will become increasingly dependent on tools such as multi-threaded data rac...
— Optical packet switches of the foreseeable future are expected to have severely limited buffering capability, since storage of optical signals remains a difficult and expensiv...
Arun Vishwanath, Vijay Sivaraman, George N. Rouska...
Grid technologies are emerging as the next generation of distributed computing, allowing the aggregation of resources that are geographically distributed across different location...