Usenet is a popular distributed messaging and file sharing service: servers in Usenet flood articles over an overlay network to fully replicate articles across all servers. Howeve...
Background: Enhancements in sequencing technology have recently yielded assemblies of large genomes including rat, mouse, human, fruit fly, and zebrafish. The availability of larg...
Eric C. Rouchka, Abdelnaby Khalyfa, Nigel G. F. Co...
This paper shows the suitability of a "self-maintaining" approach to Tertiary Disk, a large-scale disk array system built from commodity components. Instead of incurring...
We present a conceptual framework for location-aware community systems and results from two studies of how sociallydefined places influence people's information sharing and c...
Quentin Jones, Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Steve Whittak...
Name services are critical for mapping logical resource names to physical resources in large-scale distributed systems. The Domain Name System (DNS) used on the Internet, however,...