The Common Component Architecture (CCA) provides a means for developers to manage the complexity of large-scale scientific software systems and to move toward a “plug and play” environment for high-performance computing. The CCA model allows for a direct connection between components within the same process to maintain performance on inter-component calls. It is neutral with respect to parallel...

Applications dealing with large data sets obtained via simulation or actual real-time sensor networks are increasing in abundance. The data obtained from real-time sources may contain certain discrepancies which arise from the dynamic nature of the source. Furthermore, certain computations may not require all the data and hence this data must be filtered before it can be processed. By installin...

One of the key deliverables of the EU HiPEAC FP6 Network of Excellence is a roadmap on high-performance embedded architecture and compilation – the HiPEAC Roadmap for short. This paper is the result of the roadmapping process that took place within the HiPEAC community and beyond. It concisely describes the key research challenges ahead of us and it will be used to steer the HiPEAC research eff...

Data exchange on the Internet plays an essential role in electronic business (e-business). A recent trend in e-business is to create distributed databases to facilitate data exchange. In most cases, the distributed databases are developed by integrating existing systems, which may be in different database models, and on different hardware and/or software platforms. Heterogeneity may cause many ...

The limited bandwidth and the increase in power dissipation at longer communication distances and higher bit rates will create a major communication bottleneck in high-performance computing systems (HPCS), affecting not only their performance, but also their scalability. As a solution, we propose an optical-interconnect-based architecture for HPCS called reconfigurable all-photonic interconnect...

We present the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE), a graphics streaming architecture for supporting collaborative scientific visualization environments with potentially hundreds of megapixels of contiguous display resolution. In collaborative scientific visualization it is crucial to share high resolution visualizations as well as high definition video among groups of collaborators a...