stractions underlying distributed computing. We attempted to keep our preaims at an abstract and general level. In this column, we make those claims more concrete. More precisely, ...
Developing parallel applications is notoriously difficult, but is even more complex for desktop applications. The added difficulties are primarily because of their interactive nat...
The growth in size and performance of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) has compelled System-on-aProgrammable-Chip (SoPC) designers to use soft processors for controlling sys...
Blair Fort, Davor Capalija, Zvonko G. Vranesic, St...
A theory is elaboration tolerant to the extent that new information can be incorporated with only simple changes. The simplest change is conjoining new information, and only conju...
The movement to multi-core processors increases the need for simpler, more robust parallel programming models. Atomic sections have been widely recognized for their ease of use. T...
Bill McCloskey, Feng Zhou, David Gay, Eric A. Brew...