— Recently, overlay networks have emerged as a means to enhance end-to-end application performance and availability. Overlay networks attempt to leverage the inherent redundancy ...
The Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) model is designed to leverage the ease of programming of the shared memory paradigm, while enabling the highperformance by expressing locality ...
With the ability to place large numbers of transistors on a single silicon chip, manufacturers have begun developing chip multiprocessors (CMPs) containing multiple processor core...
Commodity hardware and software are growing increasingly more complex, with advances such as chip heterogeneity and specialization, deeper memory hierarchies, ne-grained power ma...
Recent advances in bioinformatics and the significant increase in computational power available to researchers have made it possible to make better use of the vast amounts of gene...