Testing often accounts for more than 50% of the required effort during system development. However, testing is often not well integrated with other development phases. One reason ...
In recent years, we have witnessed a growing interest in high performance computing (HPC) using a cluster of workstations. However, many challenges remain to be resolved before th...
A common practice in system design is to treat features intended to enhance performance and reliability as low priority tasks by scheduling them during idle periods, with the goal...
Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Xin Li, Evgenia Smirni, E...
In the so-called Information-Explosion Era, astronomical amount of information is ubiquitously produced and digitally stored. It is getting more and more convenient for cooperative...
Both researchers and operators of production systems are frequently faced with the need to manipulate entire disk images. Convenient and fast tools for saving, transferring, and i...
Mike Hibler, Leigh Stoller, Jay Lepreau, Robert Ri...