Code smells are characteristics of software that indicate that code may have a design problem. Code smells have been proposed as a way for programmers to recognize the need for re...
The Linux cluster considered in this paper, formed from shuttle box XPC nodes with 2 GHz Athlon processors connected by dual Gb Ethernet switches, is relatively easily constructed...
David J. Johnston, Martin Fleury, Michael Lincoln,...
Since processor performance scalability will now mostly be achieved through thread-level parallelism, there is a strong incentive to parallelize a broad range of applications, inc...
Practical applications are generally interdisciplinary in nature. The technology is well matured for addressing individual discipline applications and not for interdisciplinary ap...
The upstream activities of software development projects are often viewed as both the most important, the least understood, and hence the most problematic. This is particularly no...