Previous
Maximizing Application Performance on Chip Multithreading (CMT) Architectures
White Papers This paper provides a set of best practices for developers and system administrators who want to achieve maximum application performance on Chip MultiThreading (CMT) architectures such as Sun servers with CoolThreads technology.
[September 22, 2006, 1:00]
Formal Methods for Developing Adaptable, Secure, Situation-Aware Service-Oriented (AS3) Architectures
White Papers In this paper, the authors are concerned with formal methods for developing agent-based, situation-aware, secure, survivable architectures for on-demand discovery and composition of web services. In particular, the authors describe the development...
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
Middleware in Modern High Performance Computing System Architectures
White Papers A recent trend in modern High Performance Computing (HPC) system architectures employs "Lean" compute nodes running a lightweight Operating System (OS). Certain parts of the OS as well as other system software services are moved to service nodes in...
[January 16, 2009, 0:00]
On the Capacity of Optical Networks: A Framework for Comparing Different Transport Architectures
White Papers This paper compares three optical transport network architectures: Optical Packet Switching (OPS), Optical Flow Switching (OFS), and Optical Burst Switching (OBS). It characterizes the capacity regions of the transport architectures, and show that...
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
Broker Architectures for Service-Oriented Systems
White Papers Brokering is an essential element of service-oriented architectures and utility resource sharing. In these systems, broker architectures facilitate efficient and effective service management by distributing services to their "Highest and best use".
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
Web Services Security With WebSphere Application Server V6 - Part 1: Introduction to Security Architectures
White Papers This paper provides an introduction to some simple Web services security architectures. Subsequent papers in this series will provide step-by-step instructions on how to implement these architectures using IBM products, as well as further advice on...
[May 9, 2008, 1:02]
Context-Specific Middleware Specialization Techniques for Optimizing Software Product-Line Architectures
White Papers Product-Line Architectures (PLA)s are an emerging paradigm for developing software families for Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems by customizing reusable artifacts, rather than handcrafting software from scratch.
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
The Solution Architectures exam: Logical design
News As part of the emerging MCSD.Net certification track, the Solution Architectures exam (70-100) has been revised. The new test, "Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .Net Solution Architectures," (70-300) will go live in February 2003.
[February 5, 2003, 12:42]
Towards Highly Optimized Real-Time Middleware for Software Product-Line Architectures
White Papers This paper provides many contributions to the study of middleware optimization techniques for product line architectures in real-time systems. First, they identify different dimensions of generality in standards based middleware implementations.
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Design Space Exploration of Network Processor Architectures
White Papers This paper describes an approach to explore the design space for architectures of packet processing devices on the system level. The method is specific to the application domain of packet processors and is based on models for packet processing...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Novel Architectures for P2P Applications: The Continuous-Discrete Approach
White Papers This paper demonstrates the power of this approach by suggesting two new P2P architectures and various algorithms for them. This paper proposes a new approach for constructing P2P networks based on a dynamic decomposition of a continuous space into...
[May 31, 2007, 1:00]
Ensuring Web Service Quality for Service-Oriented Architectures
White Papers Current trends show that the vast majority of companies are moving to services-oriented architectures (SOAs) and deploying Web services within and across their IT infrastructure. However, the success of those deployments is determined by the...
[October 15, 2009, 9:27]
VPN Architectures - Comparing MPLS and IPSec and a Combined Approach
White Papers This white paper compares MPLS- and IPSec-based VPN architectures. It begins by explaining the evolution of the two distinct VPN technologies, and the general goals for VPN architectures. The white paper concludes with a brief description of the...
[January 23, 2004, 5:40]
Specification and Satisfaction of SLAs in Service Oriented Architectures
White Papers This paper presents two essential aspects related to the specification of Quality of Service (QoS) in service oriented architectures. Firstly an overview is presented of the concepts and requirements that a language for the specification of QoS...
[August 23, 2006, 1:00]
Advanced Payload Architectures for Future Telecommunication Satellites
White Papers Both types of service will require innovative payload architectures that will only be realized by new technologies. Long term (post-2012, say), satellite operators anticipate a market for broadband multimedia services via satellite, providing that...
[November 30, 2006, 0:00]
Using Real Options to Select Stable Middleware - Induced Software Architectures
White Papers The requirements that force decisions towards building distributed system architectures are usually of non-functional nature. Scalability, openness, heterogeneity, and fault-tolerance are examples of such non-functional requirements.
[December 24, 2008, 0:00]
Language-Based Support for Service Oriented Architectures: Future Directions
White Papers The popularity of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) lives on the promise of dynamic IT-supported inter-business collaborations. Yet the programming models in use nowadays are a poor match for the distributed, loosely-coupled, document-based SOA...
[March 10, 2007, 0:00]
Network Architectures for Live Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming
White Papers However, it is challenging to design P2P media streaming networks because of the stringent time constraints on the delivered media streams, which require more efficient and resilient overlay architectures.
[February 1, 2009, 0:00]
Infiniband demo shows future of computer architectures
News But questions remain whether the new I/O, backed by an array of high-tech heavyweights, offers any significant advantages over established architectures, such as Ethernet and Fiber Channel. A new high-speed interconnect technology designed to boost...
[June 22, 2001, 12:36]
Fiber to the Home Architectures
White Papers This paper discusses the different access network architectures, explores the access protocols being deployed, and provides an overview of their respective characteristics. The interest in deployments of Fiber To The Home (FTTH) is rising...
[March 25, 2008, 7:45]
