This position paper outlines a current research project focusing on the challenges of interaction design for context-aware mobile computer systems. This challenge is approached fr...
We describe an environment for distributed computing that uses the concept of well-known paradigms. The main advantage of paradigmoriented distributed computing (PODC) is that the...
Hairong Kuang, Lubomir Bic, Michael B. Dillencourt...
Molecular dynamics simulations are a common and often repeated task in molecular biology. The need for speeding up this treatment comes from the requirement for large system simula...
Weiguo Liu, Bertil Schmidt, Gerrit Voss, Wolfgang ...
In this paper, we consider the problem of modeling machine availability in enterprise-area and wide-area distributed computing settings. Using availability data gathered from three...
Inspired by the attractive Flops/dollar ratio and the incredible growth in the speed of modern graphics processing units (GPUs), we propose to use a cluster of GPUs for high perfo...
Zhe Fan, Feng Qiu, Arie E. Kaufman, Suzanne Yoakum...