Although there is a large body of research on detection and prevention of such memory corruption attacks as buffer overflow, integer overflow, and format string attacks, the web...
Experience has shown that development using shared-memory concurrency, the prevalent parallel programming paradigm today, is hard and synchronization primitives nonintuitive becaus...
Institutional grids consist of the aggregation of clusters belonging to different administrative domains to build a single parallel machine. To run an MPI application over an inst...
Garbage collection can be a performance bottleneck in large distributed, multi-threaded applications. Applications may produce millions of objects during their lifetimes and may i...
A lease is a token which grants its owner exclusive access to a resource for a defined span of time. In order to be able to tolerate failures, leases need to be coordinated by di...