This paper discusses the use of instant messaging (IM) as a communication tool during usability studies ? primarily between the interview and observation rooms. The benefits and c...
To distribute data from one sender to multiple receivers efficiently and concurrently, multicasting is one of the most appropriate mechanisms. Application Layer Multicast (ALM), ...
Desktop distributed computing allows companies to exploit the idle cycles on pervasive desktop PC systems to increase the available computing power by orders of magnitude (10x - 1...
The grid computing paradigm emerged recently as a new field distinguished from traditional distributed computing because of its focus on large-scale resource sharing and innovativ...
Giovanni Aloisio, Massimo Cafaro, Italo Epicoco, D...
This paper describes a heterogeneous computer cluster called Axel. Axel contains a collection of nodes; each node can include multiple types of accelerators such as FPGAs (Field P...