The last few years, users want various services that fit their needs and preferences. Many services are provided at network edges and are increasing in number. The open framework i...
The Grid approach provides the ability to access and use distributed resources as part of virtual organizations. The emerging Grid infrastructure gives rise to a class of scientif...
Rashid J. Al-Ali, Gregor von Laszewski, Kaizar Ami...
Distributed computing middleware needs to support a wide range of resources, such as diverse software components, various hardware devices, and heterogeneous operating systems and...
Han Gao, Ivan R. Judson, Thomas D. Uram, Terry Dis...
Magnetic stripe cards are in common use for electronic payments and cash withdrawal. Reported incidents document that criminals easily pickpocket cards or skim them by swiping the...
Today's FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are widely used, but not to their full potential. In Virtex series FPGAs from Xilinx a special feature, the dynamic and partial...