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Hardware (B)
Increasing the locality of iterative methods and its application to the simulation of semiconductor devices
: International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Many scientific programming applications are based on computational models involving nonlinear partial differential equations. These equations are...
Simulation (B.7.2...) | Jul 28 10
How green is green?
: IEEE Pervasive Computing
Using pervasive computing, Want attempts to relate a diversity of concerns on energy conservation and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. As is customary in energy and...
Perf. Analysis & Design Aids (B.8.2) | Jul 7 10
Computer Systems Organization (C)
A two-level distributed architecture for the support of content adaptation and delivery services
: Cluster Computing
The development of mobile devices requires cost-effective methods to access web content. This paper discusses an original architecture that can support web content...
Adaptable Architectures (C.1.3...) | Jul 27 10
A cost-effective load-balancing policy for tile-based, massive multi-core packet processors
: ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
The paper presents a tile-based massive multi-core architecture with cost-effective load balancing, as well as low-power dissipation by switching off unused cores and higher processing throughput...
Distributed Architectures (C.1.4...) | Jul 9 10
DDoS defense by offense
: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
Two methods are usually used to defend against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks: the first method provides lots of resources to satisfy requests, so that services cannot be denied; the...
Security & Protection (C.2.0...) | Jul 9 10
A proxy based dynamic data management using hierarchical database for location based services
: ICWET 10
Mobile phones have reached a central position in the world of communications. Thanks to the addition of global positioning system (GPS) readers to mobile phones, users have gained the ability to locate...
Wireless Communication (C.2.1...) | Jul 29 10
A multifrequency MAC specially designed for wireless sensor network applications
: ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
Zhou et al. describe the use of multiple frequencies for parallel communication over the regular sensor devices that provide limited bandwidth in single channels. Using multiple frequencies in...
Network Protocols (C.2.2) | Jul 20 10
Open Cirrus: a global cloud computing testbed
: Computer
Avetisyan et al. describe Open Cirrus, a cloud computing testbed, demonstrating the nature of federated distributed data centers. With a group of partners from academic...
Cloud computing (C.2.4...) | Jul 28 10
A survey of cloud platforms and their future
: ICCSA 09
The software as a service (SaaS) approach freed users from the need to buy and maintain information technology (IT) infrastructure, but it also transferred many new problems to developers--they now have...
Cloud Computing (C.2.4...) | Jun 24 10
Software (D)
Cortical architectures on a GPGPU
: GPGPU 10
Graphics processing units (GPUs) have traditionally been used to accelerate computations used in the generation of interactive three-dimensional (3D) graphics. Recent improvements in GPUs have...
Parallel Programming (D.1.3...) | Jul 19 10
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General Literature (A)
The future of everything: The Science of Prediction
One of the greatest capabilities of the digital computer is its ability to execute computational models of complex systems. Applied to systems as diverse as the weather, economics, biology, and geology,...
General (A.0) | Jul 20 10
Computer Systems Organization (C)
Multicore processors and systems
For the last 30 years, microprocessors based on a single processor core (uniprocessors) have become faster. However, limitations such as transistor scaling and thermal dissipation have begun to hobble Moore”s law--for example, the number of transistors on...
Multiple Data Stream Arch. (C.1.2) | Jul 27 10
The art of multiprocessor programming
As the clock speed of central processing units (CPUs) does not increase because of heating issues, chip manufacturers are fitting more and more transistors in the same space. Hence, while exploiting...
Mult. Data Stream Arch. (Multiproc.) (C.1.2) | Jul 8 10
The art of multiprocessor programming
Developing efficient software for multicore processors is a challenging endeavor. In order to be able to increase performance, such software must exploit the parallelism offered by these architectures. This requires...
Multiple Data Stream Arch. (C.1.2) | Jun 23 10
Coverage control in sensor networks
This very interesting book addresses sensor network issues. It is suitable for both students and researchers. In addition to its interesting content, its approximately 200-page size makes it very practical...
Network Architecture & Design (C.2.1) | Jul 16 10
Handbook of peer-to-peer networking
Writing a book that provides up-to-date information on a relatively new engineering field is an ambitious project. Apparently, this was the goal for this long-awaited work on peer-to-peer (P2P) and overlay networking. On the one hand, I see a struggle...
Network Operations (C.2.3) | Jul 7 10
Introducing Windows Azure
If you’re ready to sit down and code a Windows Azure application, this book is for you. If you’re just investigating cloud computing or trying to compare Azure to other cloud architectures, read something else first. Come back to this book after you...
Distributed Systems (C.2.4) | Jul 27 10
Economic models and algorithms for distributed systems
Advances in distributed computing and virtualization, together with the economic push for cost reduction, are behind the accelerated progress and popularity of cloud computing. Today’s technology allows...
Distributed Systems (C.2.4) | Jun 16 10
Advanced Blackberry development
Mobile phone applications are fun to create, and they have the potential for a worldwide audience. This industry has come a long way. Although it started only a few years ago, it is now a serious and mature industry...
Portable Devices (C.5.3...) | Jun 25 10
Beginning Blackberry development
This book does what it claims to do--build Java-based Blackberry applications from scratch--and does it well. Within its first 50 pages, you learn how to write a basic application. The structure of the book...
Portable Devices (C.5.3...) | Jun 17 10
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