The Internet is a widespread conglomeration of hundreds of thousands of interconnected
heterogeneous networks and hosts. The design of the Internet is based on a protocol …

Orca is a language for parallel programming on distributed systems. Communication in Orca
is based on shared data-objects, which is a form of distributed shared memory. The …

Distributed Trusted Mach (DTMach) is an operating system designed by Secure Computing
Corporation. The goal of the project is to use the Mach 3.0 kernel as the base for a secure …

Under many circumstances, the development of distributed applications greatly benefits from
mechanisms like process groups, reliable ordered multicast, and message passing …

The Mach micro kernel allows many operating system functions such as le systems, network
protocols, TTY managers and process managers to be implemented as user level servers …

The development of multimedia applications is a complex task. Much of this complexity
stems from requirements associated with programming multiple media objects and the …

A single system image is the illusion that a collection of otherwise independent computing
engines is a single computational resource. But any single system image has a boundary …

It is argued that currently dominant, large-scale storage architectures, built around central,
shared storage systems with CPU-connected devices, are reaching economic and …

Manufacturing systems have become increasingly dependent on the adequate supply of
information that is related to their control. Information technology is employed to provide this …

Efficient implementation of communication software is of critical importance for high-speed
networks. Parallelism can improve the runtime performance of implementations gained by …