In conventional DHTs, each node is assigned an exclusive slice of identifier space. Simple it is, such arrangement may be rough. In this paper we propose a generic component struc...
Ming Chen, Guangwen Yang, Yongwei Wu, Xuezheng Liu
In this paper, we compare running the Linux operating system on the compute nodes of ASCI Red hardware to running a specialized, highly-optimized lightweight kernel (LWK) operatin...
Ron Brightwell, Rolf Riesen, Keith D. Underwood, T...
In this paper, we present a structure for monitoring a large set of computational clusters. We illustrate methods for scaling a monitor network comprised of many clusters while ke...
Federico D. Sacerdoti, Mason J. Katz, Matthew L. M...
Optimizing the performance of shared-memory NUMA programs remains something of a black art, requiring that application writers possess deep understanding of their programs’ beha...
Typical Grid computing scenarios involve many distributed hardware and software components. The more components that are involved, the more likely it is that one of them may fail....
Dan Gunter, Brian Tierney, Craig E. Tull, Vibha Vi...