In the past number of years the demand for high performance computing has greatly increased in the area of bioinformatics. The huge increase in size of many genomic databases has ...
Thomas M. Keane, Andrew J. Page, James O. McInerne...
Recent evidence suggests that some characteristics of computer and telecommunications systems may be well described using heavy tailed distributions — distributions whose tail d...
— This paper presents the Simulation and Wavefront parallel-programming patterns of the MAP3S pattern-based parallel programming system for distributed-memory environments. Both ...
This paper examines QoS guarantees for bandwidth in mobile wireless networks, with a focus on reducing dropped connections on handoff. We can achieve this by reserving bandwidth f...
Heterogeneity has been considered in scheduling, but without taking into account the temporal variation of completion times of the sub-tasks for a divisible, independent task. In ...