Contemporary long-term storage devices feature powerful embedded processors and sizeable memory buffers. Active Storage Devices (ASD) is the hard disk technology that makes use of ...
—This paper studies the important interaction between parallelization and energy consumption in a parallelizable application. Given the ratio of serial and parallel portion in an...
Distributed Grid applications are becoming more and more popular as the use of complex grid middlewares becomes extensive, and more facilities are offered by these complex pieces o...
Air Quality Forecasting (AQF) is a new discipline that attempts to reliably predict atmospheric pollution. An AQF application has complex workflows and in order to produce timely ...
Abstract. In the last few years, the microprocessors technologies have been definitely moving to multi-core architectures, in order to improve performances as well as reduce power ...