Grid technology has evolved over the past several years to provide the services and infrastructure needed for building "virtual" systems and organizations. With this Gri...
Experimental computer systems research typically ignores the end-user, modeling him, if at all, in overly simple ways. We argue that this (1) results in inadequate performance eva...
Peter A. Dinda, Gokhan Memik, Robert P. Dick, Bin ...
Many fault-tolerant group communication middleware systems have been implemented assuming crash failure semantics. While this assumption is not unreasonable, it becomes hard to ju...
Dimane Mpoeleng, Paul D. Ezhilchelvan, Neil A. Spe...
The growth of business enterprises and the emergence of the Internet as a medium for data processing has led to a proliferation of applications that are server-centric. The power ...
Enterprise IT environments are complex: business applications rely on distributed middleware running on diverse hardware with components depending on each other in many unexpected...
Nikolai Joukov, Murthy V. Devarakonda, Kostas Mago...