Although optimizations have been applied for a number of years to improve the performance of software, problems that have been long-standing remain, which include knowing what opt...
—Peer-to-Peer file sharing applications in the Internet, such as BitTorrent, Gnutella, etc., have been immensely popular. Prior research mainly focuses on peer and content discov...
Jonathan S. K. Chan, Victor O. K. Li, King-Shan Lu...
1 Although processing speed, storage capacity and network bandwidth are steadily increasing, network latency remains a bottleneck for scientists accessing large remote data sets. T...
Clustering is a well known technique that allows scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems. In the J2EE framework, clustering can be used to improve the performance a...
Large–scale parallel applications performing global synchronization may spend a significant amount of execution time waiting for the completion of a barrier operation. Conseque...