A research organization responds to a variety of customer requests. Each high level request is broken down into a set of low level requests. For each low level request, the resear...
Systems software for clusters typically derives from a multiplicity of sources: the kernel itself, software associated with a particular distribution, site-specific purchased or o...
Ewing L. Lusk, Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, Andre...
Reducing power consumption has become a major challenge in the design and operation of today's computer systems. This chapter describes different techniques addressing this c...
Abstract. Open systems are becoming increasingly important in a variety of distributed, networked computer applications. Their characteristics, such as agent diversity, heterogenei...
The past decade has seen communication revolution in the form of cellular telephony as well as the Internet, but much of it has been restricted to the developed world and metro po...