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Hiding communication latency is an important optimization for parallel programs. Programmers or compilers achieve this by using non-blocking communication primitives and overlappi...
Packet filtering firewall is one of the most important mechanisms used by corporations to enforce their security policy. Recent years have seen a lot of research in the area of ...
Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...
While there seems to be a general agreement that next years' systems will include many processing cores, it is often overlooked that these systems will also include an increa...