The Amoeba group communication system has two unique aspects: (1) it uses a sequencer-based protocol with negative acknowledgements for achieving a total order on all group messag...
As the size of parallel computers increases, as well as the number of sources per router node, congestion inside the interconnection network rises significantly. In such systems, ...
With fast 3D graphics becoming more and more available even on low end platforms, the focus in developing new graphics hardware is beginning to shift towards higher quality render...
Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) techniques have been proposed to save on thermal packaging and cooling costs for generalpurpose processors. However, when invoked, these technique...
Desktop Grids have proved to be a suitable platform for the execution of Bag-of-Tasks applications but, being characterized by a high resource volatility, require the availability ...
Cosimo Anglano, John Brevik, Massimo Canonico, Dan...