This paper explores the challenges associated with distributed application management in large-scale computing environments. In particular, we investigate several techniques for e...
Nikolay Topilski, Jeannie R. Albrecht, Amin Vahdat
PatchMaker is a network management tool that tracks and stores descriptions of physical network patches in a database. Physical patches are cables that connect switches, patch pan...
Joseph R. Crouthamel, James M. Roberts, Christophe...
The Atropos logical volume manager allows applications to exploit characteristics of its underlying collection of disks. It stripes data in track-sized units and explicitly expose...
Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser, Minglong Shao...
An important problem in resource management for networked resource-sharing systems is the simultaneous allocation of multiple resources to an application. Selfoptimizing systems m...
Piyush Shivam, Adriana Iamnitchi, Aydan R. Yumeref...
Grid computing is becoming an important framework for enabling applications to utilize widely distributed collections of computational and data resources, however current grid sof...
Paul D. Coddington, Lici Lu, Darren Webb, Andrew L...