Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Volume 10

Volume 10, Number 1, 2009

Introduction to the Special Issue

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  Fatos Xhafa, Leonard Barolli:
  Simulation in Emergent Computational Systems.

Special Issue

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  Arta Doci, Leonard Barolli, Fatos Xhafa:
  Recent Advances on the Simulation Models for Ad Hoc Networks: Real Traffic and Mobility Models.
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  Ciprian Dobre, Florin Pop, Valentin Cristea:
  Simulation Framework for the Evaluation of Dependable Distributed Systems.
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  Arta Doci, William Springer, Fatos Xhafa:
  Impact of the Dynamic Membership in the Connectivity Graph of the Wireless Ad hoc Networks.
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  Sabri Pllana, Fatos Xhafa, Leonard Barolli:
  Automatic Performance Model Transformation from a Human-intuitive to a Machine-efficient Form.
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  Daniel Becker, John C. Linford, Rolf Rabenseifner, Felix Wolf:
  Replay-based synchronization of timestamps in event traces of massively parallel applications.
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  Xingfu Wu, Valerie E. Taylor, Charles W. Lively, Sameh Sharkawi:
  Performance Analysis and Optimization of Parallel Scientific Applications on CMP Clusters.
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  Anne-Elisabeth Baert, Vincent Boudet, Alain Jean-Marie, Xavier Roche:
  Minimization of Download Time Variance in a Distributed VOD System.
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  Erianto Chai, Katsuyoshi Matsumoto, Minoru Uehara, Hideki Mori:
  Virtual Large-Scale Disk Base on PC Grid.
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  Tao Yang, Leonard Barolli, Makoto Ikeda, Giuseppe De Marco, Arjan Durresi:
  Performance Evaluation of a Wireless Sensor Network for Mobile and Stationary Event Cases Considering Routing Efficiency and Goodput Metrics.

Research paper

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  Kovendhan Ponnavaikko, D. Janakiram:
  The Edge Node File System: A Distributed File System for High Performance Computing.

Book review

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  Arta Doci:
  Ad Hoc Networks: Technologies and Protocols.

Volume 10, Number 2, 2009

Introduction to the Special Issue

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  Marek Tudruj:
  Parallel and Distributed Computing Techniques, Selection of papers from ISPDC 2008.

Special Issue

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  Marta Beltrán, Antonio Guzmán:
  The Impact of Workload Variability on Load Balancing Algorithms.
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  Abdoulaye Gamatié, Éric Rutten, Huafeng Yu, Pierre Boulet, Jean-Luc Dekeyser:
  Model-Driven Engineering and Formal Validation of High-Performance Embedded Systems.
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  Stefan D. Bruda, Yuanqiao Zhang:
  Relations Between Several Parallel Computational Models.
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  Gennaro Cordasco, Biagio Cosenza, Rosario De Chiara, Ugo Erra, Vittorio Scarano:
  Experiences with Mesh-like computations using Prediction Binary Trees.
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  Maciej Mlynski:
  The influence of the IBM pSeries servers virtualization mechanism on dynamic resource allocation in AIX 5L.
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  Ravi Reddy, Alexey L. Lastovetsky, Pedro Alonso:
  HeteroPBLAS: A Set of Parallel Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms Optimized for Heterogeneous Computational Clusters.

Research paper

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  Jayanta Mukherjee, Soumyendu Raha:
  Power-aware Speed-up for Multithreaded Numerical Linear Algebraic Solvers on Chip Multicore Processors.

Volume 10, Number 3, 2009

Introduction to the Special Issue

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  Janusz Zalewski:
  Real-Time Distributed Systems and Networks.

Special Issue

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  Tanguy Le Berre, Philippe Mauran, Gérard Padiou, Philippe Quéinnec:
  Real Time Behavior of Data in Distributed Embedded Systems.
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  Jan Galdun, Jean-Marc Thiriet, Jan Ligus:
  Study of different load dependencies among shared redundant systems.
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  Laure Gonnord, Jean-Philippe Babau:
  Qinna: a component-based framework for runtime safe resource adaptation of embedded systems.
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  Guido Moritz, Steffen Prüter, Dirk Timmermann, Frank Golatowski:
  Deployment of Embedded Web Services in Real-Time Systems.
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  Alécio Pedro Delazari Binotto, Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Marco A. Wehrmeister, Carlos Eduardo Pereira, André Stork, Tony Larsson:
  Towards Task Dynamic Reconfiguration over Asymmetric Computing Platforms for UAVs Surveillance Systems.
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  Diego Martínez, Francisco Blanes, José E. Simó, Alfons Crespo:
  Wireless Sensors and Actuators Networks: Characterization and Cases Study for Confined Spaces Healthcare and Control Applications.
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  Ha Yoon Song:
  Combination of Localization Techniques for Mobile Sensor Network for Precise Localization.
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  Dariusz Rzonca, Jan Sadolewski, Andrzej Stec, Zbigniew Swider, Bartosz Trybus, Leszek Trybus:
  Open environment for programming small controllers according to IEC 61131-3 standard.

Volume 10, Number 4, 2009

Introduction to the Special Issue

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  Pierluigi Amodio, Luigi Brugnano:
  Special Issue Devoted to Professor Ian Gladwell.

Special Issue

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  Lawrence F. Shampine:
  Vectorized Solution of ODEs in Matlab.
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  Jeff R. Cash, Francesca Mazzia:
  Conditioning and Hybrid Mesh Selection Algorithms for Two-Point Boundary Value Problems.
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  Laurent O. Jay:
  Preconditioning of implicit Runge-Kutta methods.
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  Pierluigi Amodio, Giuseppe Romanazzi:
  Parallel Numerical Solution of ABD and BABD linear systems arising from BVPs.
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  Pierluigi Amodio, Luigi Brugnano:
  Parallel Factorizations in Numerical Analysis.
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  Branko Marovic, Milan Potocnik, Branislav Cukanovic:
  Multi-application bag of jobs for interactive and on-demand computing.
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  Richard Olejnik, Iyad Alshabani, Bernard Toursel, Eryk Laskowski, Marek Tudruj:
  Load Balancing Metrics for the SOAJA Framework.
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  Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Michal Drozdowicz, Mehrdad Senobari, Ivan Lirkov, Sofiya Ivanovska, Richard Olejnik, Pavel Telegin:
  Mirroring information within an agent-team-based intelligent Grid middleware; an overview and directions for system development.

Research paper

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  Ami Marowka:
  Performance Study of the First Three Intel Multicore Processors.

Book review

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  Anthony Kulis:
  Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies.