Existing DHT-based file systems use consistent hashing to assign file blocks to random machines. As a result, a user task accessing an entire file or multiple files needs to r...
Jeffrey Pang, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kaminsky...
Failure behavior analysis is a very important phase in developing large distributed embedded systems with weak safety requirements which do graceful degradation in case of failure...
We describe the distributed high performance computing system we have developed to integrate together a heterogeneous set of high performance computers, high capacity storage syst...
Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. James, Kevin Maciunas,...
Workflow management systems (WFMSs) that are geared for the orchestration of enterprise-wide or even "virtual-enterprise"-style business processes across multiple organi...
Organizations have become increasingly dependent on computing systems to achieve their business goals. The performance of these systems in terms of response times and cost has a m...
M. Qin, R. Lee, Asham El Rayess, Vidar Vetland, Je...