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By Matthew Kay, Dimitris Mitropoulos, Wolfgang Richter, Lora Oehlberg, Lea Rosen, September 2012
Articles Tagged: Distributed architectures
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Smarter Cities: Making societies smarter
In this article we outline the technological characteristics and features of "smart cities," describe how these are being implemented in the real-world, and explore some of the challenges these characteristics present to communications technologies.
By Peter J. McNerney, Ning Zhang, December 2011
Server virtualization architecture and implementation
Virtual machine technology, or virtualization, is gaining momentum in the information technology community. While virtual machines are not a new concept, recent advances in hardware and software technology have brought virtualization to the forefront of IT management. Stability, cost savings, and manageability are among the reasons for the recent rise of virtualization. Virtual machine solutions can be classified by hardware, software, and operating system/containers. From its inception on the mainframe to distributed servers on x86, the virtual machine has matured and will play an increasing role in systems management.
By Jeff Daniels, September 2009
Game-state fidelity across distributed interactive games
By Aaron McCoy, Declan Delaney, Tomas Ward, October 2005
Building an MPI cluster
By Donald C. Bergen, Boise P. Miller, August 2002
SETI @ home project and its website
By Pragyansmita Paul, April 2002
Introduction to programming shared-memory and distributed-memory parallel computers
By Cory Quammen, April 2002
Electronic commerce universal access device-the knowledge-acquiring layered infrastructure (KALI) project
By Theodore Chiasson, Carrie Gates, September 2000
Objective ViewPoint: distributed computation with Java remote method invocation
By Kevin Henry, July 2000
Charlotte
By Stuart Patterson, June 2000
Networks and distributed systems: introduction
By Kevin Fu, November 1998