Computational Grids have the potential to become the main execution platform for high performance and distributed applications. However, such systems are extremely complex and pro...
Raissa Medeiros, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Vilar B...
Large-scale and dynamically changing distributed systems such as the Grid, peer-to-peer overlays, etc., need to collect several kinds of global statistics in a decentralized manne...
The need for sharing is well known in a large number of distributed applications. These applications are difficult to develop either for fully wired or mobile wireless networks. ...
Instant messaging (IM) has become increasingly popular due to its quick response time, its ease of use, and possibility of multitasking. It is estimated that there are several mil...
Current operating systems offer basic support for network interface controllers (NICs) supporting remote direct memory access (RDMA). Such support typically consists of a device d...