A cluster of PCs can be seen as a collection of networked low cost disks; such a collection can be operated by proper so as to provide the abstraction of a single, larger block de...
Alessandro Di Marco, Giovanni Chiola, Giuseppe Cia...
This paper outlines an awareness application called Tickertape. Tickertape is a tool that displays event notifications in the form of scrolling messages across a single-line windo...
Sara Parsowith, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Simon M. Ka...
With the advent of grid technologies, scientists and engineers are building more and more complex applications to utilize distributed grid resources. The core grid services provid...
Karen M. McCann, Maurice Yarrow, Adrian De Vivo, P...
The Knowledge File System (KFS) is a smart virtual file system that sits between the operating system and the file system. Its primary functionality is to automatically organize fi...
Kuiyu Chang, I. Wayan Tresna Perdana, Bramandia Ra...
In distributed systems users need the ability to share sensitive content with multiple other recipients based on their ability to satisfy arbitrary policies. One such system is el...