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HPDC
1997
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Secure Communications Infrastructure for High-Performance Distributed Computing
We describe a software infrastructure designed to support the development of applications that use high-speed networks to connect geographically distributed supercomputers, databa...
Ian T. Foster, Nicholas T. Karonis, Carl Kesselman...
CHI
2000
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
curlybot: designing a new class of computational toys
We introduce an educational toy, called curlybot, as the basis for a new class of toys aimed at children in their early stages of development – ages four and up. curlybot is an ...
Phil Frei, Victor Su, Bakhtiar Mikhak, Hiroshi Ish...
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WIOPT
2010
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Saluki: A high-performance Wi-Fi sniffing program
Building a campus-wide wireless LAN measurement system faces many efficiency, scalability and security challenges. To address these challenges, we developed a distributed Wi-Fi sni...
Keren Tan, David Kotz
OOPSLA
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
X10: an object-oriented approach to non-uniform cluster computing
It is now well established that the device scaling predicted by Moore’s Law is no longer a viable option for increasing the clock frequency of future uniprocessor systems at the...
Philippe Charles, Christian Grothoff, Vijay A. Sar...
WMPI
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Selective main memory compression by identifying program phase changes
During a program’s runtime, the stack and data segments of the main memory often contain much redundancy, which makes them good candidates for compression. Compression and decomp...
Doron Nakar, Shlomo Weiss