Known challenges for petascale machines are that (1) the costs of I/O for high performance
applications can be substantial, especially for output tasks like checkpointing, and (2) noise …

We consider a sequential object-oriented language with pointers and mutable state, private
fields and classbased visibility, dynamic binding and inheritance, recursive classes, casts …

Large scale applications are generating a tsunami of data, with understanding driven by
finding information hidden within this data. The ever-increasing sizes of output, however, are …

Web services. with an emphasis on open standards and flexibility. may provide benefits over
existing capital markets integration practices. However. web services must first meet certain …

Web 2.0 provides the technological foundations upon which the crowdsourcing paradigm
evolves and operates, enabling enterprises, universities and eGovernments, to access …

The complexity of HPC systems has increased the burden on the developer as applications
scale to hundreds of thousands of processing cores. Moreover, additional efforts are …

Energy efficient communication is a key issue in wireless sensor networks. Common belief is
that a multi-hop configuration is the only viable energy efficient technique. In this paper we …

ABSTRACT The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is an emerging technology in the
field of web services. Web services demand high performance, security and extensibility …

XML (Extensible Markup Language) processing can incur significant runtime overhead in
XML-based infrastructural middleware such as Web service application servers. This paper …

Efficient data movement is an important part of any high-performance I/O system, but it is
especially critical for the current and next-generation of massively parallel processing (MPP) …