Instruction Balanced Time Slicing IBTS allows multiple parallel jobs to be scheduled in a manner akin to the well-known gang scheduling scheme in parallel computers. IBTS however a...
Building the hardware for a high-performance distributed computer system is a lot easier than building its software. In this paper we describe a model for programtributed systems ...
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Henri E. Bal, M. Frans Kaasho...
XP is a lightweight process that provides principles for guiding projects and relies on the participants for its success. However, despite these guidelines, projects can be unsucc...
Alan Gray, Andrew Jackson, Ioanna Stamouli, Shiu L...
We describe the design of a runtime system for a fine-grained concurrent object-oriented (actor) language and its performance. The runtime system provides considerable flexibility...
The software industry is increasingly facing the issues of understanding and maintaining a particular type of software systems, namely distributed systems. While these systems are...