The virtual synchrony model for group communication has proven to be a powerful paradigm for building distributed applications. Implementationsof virtual synchrony usually require...
Idle workstations in a network represent a significant computing potential. In particular, their processing power can be used by parallel-distributed programs that treat the netwo...
Michael J. Feeley, Brian N. Bershad, Jeffrey S. Ch...
—Today’s enterprise data centers are shifting towards a utility computing model where many business critical applications share a common pool of infrastructure resources that o...
In high-end desktop videoconferencing systems, several windows compete for screen space, particularly when users also share an application. Ideally, the layout of these windows sh...
Sasa Junuzovic, Kori Inkpen, Rajesh Hegde, Zhengyo...
Although chip-multiprocessors have become the industry standard, developing parallel applications that target them remains a daunting task. Non-determinism, inherent in threaded a...
Marek Olszewski, Jason Ansel, Saman P. Amarasinghe