—The growing popularity of social media in recent years has resulted in the creation of an enormous amount of user-developed content. While information is readily available, ther...
PC grids represent massive computation capacity at a low cost, but are challenging to employ for parallel computing because of variable and unpredictable performance and availabili...
Nagarajan Kanna, Jaspal Subhlok, Edgar Gabriel, Es...
In this paper, we argue for the power of providing a common set of OS services to wide area applications, including mechanisms for resource discovery, a global namespace, remote p...
Amin Vahdat, Thomas E. Anderson, Michael Dahlin, E...
In this paper, we quantify the adverse effect of file sharing on the performance of reliable distributed applications. We demonstrate that file sharing incurs significant overhead...
As part of its HiPer-D Program, the United States Navy is developing an experimental distributed system which achieves survivability by dynamically reconfiguring the system using ...
Philip M. Irey IV, Robert W. Hott, David T. Marlow