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Neighborhood-Consistent Transaction Management For Pervasive Computing Environments
White Papers This paper examines the problem of transaction management in pervasive computing environments and presents a new approach to address them. Pervasive environments, unlike traditional mobile computing paradigm, do not differentiate between clients...
[April 20, 2005, 0:00]
Ad Hoc Composition Of User Tasks In Pervasive Computing Environments
White Papers One of the most challenging objectives to be achieved in pervasive computing environments is to allow a user to perform a task by composing on the fly the environment's service and resource components.
[July 26, 2005, 0:00]
Grid Computing Environments
White Papers One area of interest is called Grid Computing Environments (GCE) and roughly this describes the "user side" of a computing system where users interact via which controls a set of distributed back end resources.
[November 30, 2004, 23:00]
Adaptive Service Provision In Mobile Computing Environments
White Papers The paper introduces an adaptive service provision platform for mobile computing environments capable of supporting flexible Value Added Service (VAS) provision to mobile users. Adaptability is one of the challenges of today's mobile distributed...
[May 27, 2005, 0:00]
Maximizing NFS Scalability On Dell Servers And Storage In High-Performance Computing Environments
White Papers Popular because of its maturity and ease of use, the Network File System (NFS) can be used in high-performance computing cluster environments. This paper discusses how administrators can improve performance and obtain maximum scalability from a...
[December 18, 2004, 23:00]
Distributed File System Virtualization Techniques Supporting On-Demand Virtual Machine Environments For Grid Computing
White Papers This paper presents a data management solution which allows fast Virtual Machine (VM) instantiation and efficient run-time execution to support VMs as execution environments in Grid computing. It is based on novel distributed file system...
[April 1, 2007, 0:00]
Support For Personal And Service Mobility In Ubiquitous Computing Environments
White Papers Ubiquitous computing environment is defined by the shift of computing technology from the desktop to the background. This paper describes an agent-based architecture that brings personal and service mobility to the ubiquitous computing environment.
[March 16, 2006, 23:00]
Secure PcAnywhere Computing Environments
White Papers This document will outline the various ways in which pcAnywhere may be configured in order to maintain a secure computing environment. The good news is that the single largest reason that a computing environment falls prey to a security attack is...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Exploiting Heterogeneity In Ubiquitous Computing Environments For Robust Positioning And Localization
White Papers An essential prerequisite to location aware computing is the ability to gather information about the current location or position of users and their mobile devices. Various systems for positioning and localization have been proposed for ubiquitous...
[July 1, 2004, 0:00]
HP's Strategy For Delivering Cluster Technology To Technical Computing Environments
White Papers Technical computing vendors must maintain a close focus on their overall mission, which is to provide the tools, such as clusters, that scientists and engineers need in order to address the next generation of problems.
[March 9, 2006, 23:00]
Service Oriented Architectures For Grid Computing Environments: Opportunities And Challenges
White Papers Grid computing has allowed for the virtualization of both hardware and software resources, whereby it is possible to dynamically share, select, and use geographically distributed resources based on users' needs.
[March 9, 2007, 23:00]
Consistent Modelling Of Users, Devices And Environments In A Ubiquitous Computing Environment
White Papers It explains the motivation for the key properties of the representation, especially those of particular importance for ubiquitous computing: firstly, for flexibility in interpreting the typically noisy and potentially conflicting evidence about...
[October 13, 2005, 0:00]
Adaptive Control Of Virtualized Resources In Utility Computing Environments
White Papers Data centers are often under-utilized due to over-provisioning as well as time-varying resource demands of typical enterprise applications. One approach to increase resource utilization is to consolidate applications in a shared infrastructure...
[February 14, 2008, 23:00]
Lessons Learned From Developing A Bluetooth Multiplayer-Game
White Papers Gaming applications in ubiquitous computing environments will be in need of wireless communication facilities. As a first step, it examines general issues of gaming applications in ubiquitous computing environments.
[July 1, 2004, 0:00]
Using Virtualized Operating Systems As A Ubiquitous Computing Infrastructure
White Papers The Personalization of computing environments is one of the key aspects of ubiquitous computing, and such personalization requires isolated computing environments for better security and stability. This paper describes the ubiquitous computing...
[March 1, 2008, 23:00]
HP Serviceguard For Linux: Data Integrity And Application Availability For Business-Critical Environments
White Papers This white paper presents the capabilities and benefits of HP Serviceguard for Linux - a solution for high availability clustered computing environments that offers features and functionality similar to HP Serviceguard for the HP-UX platform.
[November 9, 2004, 23:00]
Platform Details Open Grid Plans
News In a move away from single-supplier grid infrastructures, the Enterprise Grid Computing (EGO) framework integrates mixed environments and is not led by a single vendor. Songnian Zhou, chief executive of Platform Computing said, of the development...
[September 19, 2005, 18:10]
Vigil: Providing Trust For Enhanced Security In Pervasive Systems
White Papers In such pervasive computing environments, users expect to access resources and services at any time from anywhere. This paper describes the security challenges in pervasive computing, explaining why traditional security mechanisms fail to meet the...
[March 21, 2006, 23:00]
One Million Financial Transactions Per Hour Using Oracle Database 10g And XA
White Papers XA is very important in these environments because it ensures integrity of complex distributed business transactions, which use multiple computing environments like databases, message servers, queues etc.
[February 2, 2005, 23:00]
How Multicore Processing And 64-Bit Operating Systems Enhance A Utility Computing Environment
White Papers As organizations wrestle with how to better align IT with their business and drive economies of scale into their IT environments, increasingly utility computing is an option to consider. As the concept of a pool of resources develops, technologies...
[February 28, 2008, 23:00]
