Modern high speed local area networks offer great potential for communication intensive
applications, but their performance is limited by the use of traditional communication …

Orca is a portable, object-based distributed shared memory (DSM) system. This article
studies and evaluates the design choices made in the Orca system and compares Orca with …

Java offers interesting opportunities for parallel computing. In particular, Java Remote
Method Invocation provides an unusually flexible kind of Remote Procedure Call. Unlike …

We evaluate the performance of Manta using benchmarks and applications that run on a 32-
node Myrinet cluster. The time for a null-RMI (without parameters or a return value) of Manta …

Background Diagnostics and disease-management strategies require technologies to
enable the simultaneous detection and quantification of a wide range of pathogenic …

The emergence of fast, cheap embedded processors present s the opportunity to execute
code directly on the network interface. We are developing an extensible execution …

Many programming languages support either task parallelism, but few languages provide a
uniform framework for writing applications that need both types of parallelism or data …

Recent developments in networking technology cause a growing interest in connecting local
area clusters of workstations over wide area links, creating multilevel clusters, or …

Models for Asynchronous Message Handling Page 1 Models for Asynchronous Message
Handling Koen Langendoen, Raoul Bhoedjang, and Henri Bal Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam …

The emergence of fast, cheap embedded processors presents the opportunity for processing
to occur on the network adapter. We are investigating how a system design incorporating …