— The nature of Grid and distributed computing implies communication between heterogeneous systems over a wide and ever-changing variety of network environments. Often large amou...
John Bresnahan, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Ian T. Foster
Modern network devices employ deep packet inspection to enable sophisticated services such as intrusion detection, traffic shaping, and load balancing. At the heart of such servi...
Randy Smith, Neelam Goyal, Justin Ormont, Karthike...
Phoebus is an infrastructure for improving end-to-end throughput in high-bandwidth, long-distance networks by using a “session layer” protocol and “gateways” in the networ...
Self-managing systems able to dynamically re-configure with respect to time-varying workload mixes and changing system resource availability are of growing importance in heterogen...
Alois Ferscha, James Johnson, Gabriele Kotsis, Cos...
An operating system’s readahead and buffer-cache behaviors can significantly impact application performance; most often these better performance, but occasionally they worsen it...