Prober is a functional and performance analysis tool for parallel programs, developed during an undergraduate research project. In this paper we show the new expanded version of Prober, in which some features from different software tools are aggregated. It can be used as a single tool to aid the developer in the performance analysis of parallel programs. Our main goal is to provide a new versi...

We consider the problem of programming parallel applications for a Grid environment, in the presence of the two main challenges (i) high-latency communications and (ii) heterogeneity. We describe a new scripting language, GEL, whose semantics have been designed for execution on a heterogeneous, distributed computer. The language provides syntactic constructs for while loops, conditionals and ex...

Using the SIOC explorer The entry page shows a list of SIOC forums in the database. In terms of SIOC each collection of posts is called a “forum”. After selecting a forum, a list of post excerpts is shown in the main column. The user can expand a specific post in order to see the full content and comments. The user can then browse posts by author or by topic or by period of time across all foru...

The alignment of higher education with the skill needs employers and industry at large is a topic active debate, particularly for engineering education. Formal informal content developed by companies, technology-specific associations, consulting firms, individuals forms body knowledge that might fast-track careers toward very specific opportunities. By contrast, academic courseware known its pe...