Funded under the European Commission's IST programme, the POP project focused on generating an environment to allow applications designed using the OpenMP Application Program Interface (API) to ...

Complex, computational work with huge sets of data is now common practice in fields such as genomics, economics, and astrophysics. Researchers in these and similarly data intensive fields depend on ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

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Imagine a world without a global notion of time. Now try to find out the flight direction of an airplane with the following information: There's an e-mail from Alice that she saw the plane about two ...

If you reduce systems down to their bare essentials, everything exists in those systems to manipulate data in memory, and like human beings, all that really exists for any of us is what is in memory.

The development of parallel simulation technology is seen as an enabler for the implementation of the virtual factory concept, the integrated simulation of all the systems in a factory. One important ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anjana Susarla is a professor of Responsible AI at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. This voice ...