The execution of an application on a high performance system requires parameters concerning the problem in hand, and those that determine the system mapping, to be specified by a ...
Darren J. Kerbyson, Efstathios Papaefstathiou, Gra...
A promising approach to scaling Web applications is to distribute the server infrastructure on which they run. This approach, unfortunately, can introduce latency between the appl...
Amit Manjhi, Charles Garrod, Bruce M. Maggs, Todd ...
Grid Computing brought the promise of making high-performance computing cheaper and more easily available than traditional supercomputing platforms. Such a promise was very well r...
Peer-to-peer, or simply P2P, systems have recently emerged as a popular paradigm for building distributed applications. One key aspect of the P2P system design is the mechanism us...
Fingerprint matching is still a challenging problem for reliable person authentication because of the complex distortions involved in two impressions of the same finger. In this p...