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The bus that connects processors to memory is known to be a major architectural bottleneck in SMPs. However, both software and scheduling policies for these systems generally focu...
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Weakly consistent replication of data has become increasingly important both for loosely-coupled collections of personal devices and for large-scale infrastructure services. Unfor...
Prince Mahajan, Ramakrishna Kotla, Catherine C. Ma...
Grid computing is a newly developed technology for complex systems with large-scale resource sharing and multi-institutional collaboration. The prominent feature of grid computing...
The shared data space model has proven to be an effective paradigm for building distributed applications. However, building an efficient distributed implementation remains a chall...
Giovanni Russello, Michel R. V. Chaudron, Maarten ...