Using virtual machines as a resource provisioning mechanism offers multiple benefits, most recently exploited by “infrastructure-as-a-service” clouds, but also poses several...
One of the keys for the success of parallel processing is the availability of high-level programming languages for on-the-shelf parallel architectures. Using explicit message passi...
Abstract. In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in Javabased volunteer computing systems, which aim to make it possible to build very large parallel computing network...
Although work pr ocesses, like software pr ocesses, include a number of process aspects such as defined phases and deadlines, they are not plannable in detail. Howe ver, the advan...
We propose a new concurrent programming model, Automatic Mutual Exclusion (AME). In contrast to lock-based programming, and to other programming models built over software transac...