The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is in the process of adopting standards for IP-layer encryption and authentication (IPSEC). We describe how “probable plaintext” can...
Replication is a key strategy for improving locality, fault tolerance and availability in distributed systems. The paper focuses on distributed file systems and presents a system ...
The performance of the Global Array shared-memory nonuniform memory-access programming model is explored on the I-WAY, wide-area-network distributed supercomputer environment. The...
- Partitionability allows the creation of many physically independent subsystems, each of which retains an identical functionality as its parent network and has no communication in...
Process technology advances tell us that the one-million gate Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) will soon be here, and larger devices shortly after that. We feel that current a...