Abstract. Recent trends in software development directed toward intelligence, distribution, and mobility need to be followed by an increased sophistication in user interface design...
We present a software-based parallel MPEG-2 video encoder implemented on a cluster of workstations connected via an ATM switch and also via Ethernet. We exploit parallelism on a Gr...
Shahriar M. Akramullah, Ishfaq Ahmad, Ming L. Liou
While fault-tolerance is desirable for grid applications because of the distributed and dynamic nature of grid resources, it has seldom been considered in static scheduling. We pr...
Data replication in distributed databases has been investigated extensively with the hope that it will improve performance, reliability, and availability. However, the growth of t...
In this paper, we propose using the network-attached disk (NAD) architecture to design highly scalable and cost-effective multimedia-on-demand (MOD) servers. In order to ensure en...