Current microprocessor instruction set architectures are word oriented, with some subword support. Many important applications, however, can realize substantial performance benefi...
“Volunteer computing” uses Internet-connected computers, volunteered by their owners, as a source of computing power and storage. This paper studies the potential capacity of ...
Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) is a byte stream protocol that utilizes the capabilities of the InfiniBand fabric to transparently achieve performance gains for existing socket-base...
In this article we introduce a grid runtime system called TGrid which is designed to run hierarchically structured task-parallel programs on heterogenous environments and can also...
Heterogeneous networks of computers have rapidly become a very promising commodity computing solution, expected to play a major role in the design of high performance computing sy...