... TOOLS AND ENVIRONMENTS FORPARALLELANDDISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Edited by Salim Hariri Manish Parashar A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION TOOLS AND ENVIRONMENTS FORPARALLELANDDISTRIBUTED ... 1: ParallelandDistributed Computing This chapter provides an introduction to parallelanddistributedsystemsand their benefits in performance, resource sharing, extendibility, reliability, and ... outlines parallelanddistributed computing approaches and paradigms and the opportunities and challenges of paralleland PREFACE xiii distributed computing Finally, it presents a three-tiered distributed...
... tools (LTGT) (LTG, 1999) and GATE (Cunningham et al., 1995) Like TEA, both L T G T and GATE are frameworks for TE LTGT adopts the pipeline architecturefor module integration For processing, a text ... several systems (e.g Choi (1999a); van Halteren et al (1998); Brill and Wu (1998); Veronis and Ide (1991)) Our architecture currently offers two types of voting mechanisms: weighted average (Eq.1) and ... (similar to the T I P S T E R architecture (Grishman, 1997)) Modules communicate by reading and writing information to and from a central database Unlike LTGT, both GATE and T E A are designed to...
... TOOLS AND ENVIRONMENTS FORPARALLELANDDISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Edited by Salim Hariri Manish Parashar A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION TOOLS AND ENVIRONMENTS FORPARALLELANDDISTRIBUTED ... 1: ParallelandDistributed Computing This chapter provides an introduction to parallelanddistributedsystemsand their benefits in performance, resource sharing, extendibility, reliability, and ... outlines parallelanddistributed computing approaches and paradigms and the opportunities and challenges of paralleland PREFACE xiii distributed computing Finally, it presents a three-tiered distributed...
... Operating Systems: Distributed, Database, and Multiprocessor Operating Systems, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1994 10 PARALLELANDDISTRIBUTED COMPUTING 40 IBM, Distributed Computing Environment: Understanding ... message-passing for particular systems (e.g., CMMD for CM5 and NX/2 for Intel parallel computers) Since these tools use proprietary communication hardware and software, their performance is better ... with each other As Thekkath, Levy, and Lazowska did fordistributed operating systems [66], we designate a channel for control and management and a data channel, and operate them concurrently Thus,...
... performance on either the same computing platform or on a different platform PVM performs worst on the IBM AIX platform, but shows performance comparable to ACS on both the Sun Solaris platform ... Langendoen, H Bal, and F Kaashoek, Panda: a portable platform to support parallel programming languages, Proceedings of the Symposium on Experiences with Distributedand Microprocessor Systems IV, pp ... Figures 2.12 and 2.13 (message size byte and kB) The MPI primitive [MPI_Bcast()] shows a performance comparable to that of ACS and p4 for relatively small message sizes (up to kB) and small group...
... 1997 T Ruhl, H Bal, and G Benson, Experience with a portability layer for implementing parallel programming systems, Proceedings of the International Conference on ParallelandDistributed Processing ... of forms in different systems, including: • Page fault and signal handling • System call overheads to protect and unprotect memory • Thread/context switching overheads Tools and Environments for ... various DSM systems available today, both commercially and academically, can be broadly classified as shown in Figure 3.1 The effectiveness of DSM systems in providing parallelanddistributed systems...
... semiconductor and networking infrastructures have blurred the differentiation between parallelanddistributed computing systemsand made distributed computing a workable alternative to high-performance parallel ... been proposed by academia and industry for developing robust distributed software systems Despite a large number of such systems, one fact is clear that the software fordistributed computing can ... with code segments, followed by a comparison and experimental evalTools and Environments forParallelandDistributed Computing, Edited by Salim Hariri and Manish Parashar ISBN 0-471-33288-7 Copyright...
... Step 6: Set up DCOMCNFG The level and security and access are defined by DCOMCNFG for each registered class Each registered class is treated as an application and the details pertaining to the ... implementing a DCOM server and client under a Windows environment However, as the objective of this experiment was to measure the performance of DCOM and compare it with RMI and CORBA, the DCOM application ... oTimer.getFromTimer(); // // // // print the input and return vector contents for verification calculate the total time taken on an average for each method call EXAMPLES 103 lTimeDiff = (endTime-startTime)...
... of rows and columns in A and B by //calling getRows() and //getCols on matrix references A and B passed to this //method //Perform checks on number of rows and columns in matri//ces A and B ... rowMultiply thread and used in the result cal//culations for row buffer.setBuffer(coeffU); //Get the computed result for this row and set the element //in the resultant matrix 130 DISTRIBUTED- OBJECT ... paradigms and system resources involved are noted in Table 4.3 TABLE 4.1 Comparison Based on Language and Platform Dependencies RMI Can only be implemented using Java Can run on all platforms for which...
... other disciplines influences this new area and makes answers to Tools and Environments forParallelandDistributed Computing, Edited by Salim Hariri and Manish Parashar ISBN 0-471-33288-7 Copyright ... explanations and guidance for accessing Grid resources and developing secure service 5.4.2 Managing Grid Information Within Grids, information about the users and the system is critical User information ... This protocol enables uniform querying of system information from a variety of system components and can be used for constructing a uniform name space for resource information across a system...
... Puerto Rico and the analysis of the data The SETI@Home project developed stable and userappealing screen savers for Macintosh and Windows computers and a command-line client for Unix systems [56,61] ... system provides a wealth of both user and aggregate information and allows organizations to form teams for corporations and organizations, which then have their standings posted on the Web site SETI@Home ... analysis and visualization, and collaboration; this front end is based on Web technologies and object-oriented commodity standards Tier is formed by distributed object-based, scalable and reusable...
... existing An extensive survey of tools andsystemsfor high-performance parallel/ distributed computing can be found in [11,31] 204 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FORPARALLELANDDISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SA/SD (structured ... 21 P H Mills, L S Nyland, J F Prins, J H Reif, and R W Wagner, Prototyping parallelanddistributed system in proteus, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Symposium on ParallelandDistributed Processing, ... (1) rendering the estimated information onto a graphical display, and (2) writing it onto disk for subsequent analysis 198 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FORPARALLELANDDISTRIBUTED COMPUTING 6.7 APPLICATION...
... 15-21 Figure Overview of Kaffe architecture Figure Co-design of Embedded Kaffe For the purpose of using a java-like technology for embedded systems, we design a distributed Kaffe system using ... the threads are standard threads within the Kaffe virtual Machine except for the Hardware handler that is added for communicating with the ARM processor interface The hardware handler is also an ... the Kaffe Native Interface (KNI) and builds in standard C using a call for information, which will be stored in the ARM dynamic memory The algorithm of this method forms the major function calls...
... body element and allows the article and sidebar content to be swapped, moving the sidebar from the right to the left and vice versa for the article Scalable and Modular Architecturefor CSS 11 ... HTML can be a good thing and in some cases, absolutely necessary For example, they provide 12 Scalable and Modular Architecturefor CSS efficient hooks for JavaScript For CSS, however, ID selectors ... Scalable and Modular Architecturefor CSS By Jonathan Snook Copyright 2012 Jonathan Snook All Rights Reserved SMACSS: Scalable and Modular Architecturefor CSS http://smacss.com...
... Game Architecture 2.4 Software Architecture In order to properly design a flexible and expandable architecturefor games, it is not only necessary to understand games, but also software architecture ... new game Figure - Rollings’ and Morris’ Game Architecture Rollings and Morris, the authors of Game Architectureand Design, reviewed existing game architectures, and attempted to map out a possible ... 1.2.5 Performance and Other Quality Attributes are NOT Requirements It may seem odd to not include performance as a key requirement when designing an architecturefor a domain that demands such...
... helps in understanding the factors that affect image performance and therefore helps the design of imaging systemsand signal processing algorithms The image formation process and the sources ... extracting information from an imaging system with the aid of signal processing to evaluate the overall performance of imaging systems 1.2 Imaging Performance Understanding the image formation and recording ... Processing and Performance Analysis for Imaging SystemsFor a listing of recent titles in the Artech House Optoelectronics Series, turn to the back of this book Signal Processing and Performance...
... my colleagues and I sorely needed—a platform for correcting much of the misinformation circulating about the theory of intelligent design Many news articles and reports confused intelligent design ... explanations for the origin of biological information Then, in Chapters 15 and 16, I present a positive case forintelligent design as the best explanation for the origin of the information necessary ... value information, but that we regard it as a real entity, on par with matter and energy That living systems also contain information and depend on it for their existence makes it possible for us...
... perform signal frame synchronization because it fully exploits the structure of the baseband signals of RFID systems The proposed algorithm is therefore particularly useful in advanced RFID systems ... A Garcia-Alonso, I Fernandez, ´ and I Gutierrez, “Design and implementation of a long-range rfid reader for passive transponders,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol 57, ... the edge detector for baseband signal detection techniques of conventional RFID interrogators; Section introduces the proposed JVSS algorithm for joint data sequence detection and signal frame...
... malicious attackers PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF CDMA SYSTEMS WITH SECURE SCRAMBLING Pseudorandom scrambling in CDMA systems provides physical layer built-in user privacy for information transmission ... conventional scrambling and secure scrambling, respectively In practical systems, after spreading and scrambling, passband PAM (pulse amplitude modulation) is performed Mapping information bearing ... combination of security, performance, efficiency, ease of implementation, and flexibility makes it an appropriate selection for the AES Rijndael is a good performer in both hardware and software across...