Device drivers are a significant source of system instability. In this paper, we make the case for running device drivers at user-level to improve robustness and resource managemen...
Load distribution is one of the main design issues that arise with respect to efficient resource management in distributed systems. Various load distribution techniques have been d...
IBM's SMART (Self-Managing And Resource Tuning) project aims to make DB2 selfmanaging, i.e. autonomic, to decrease the total cost of ownership and penetrate new markets. Over...
This paper describes the development and evaluation of Synote, a freely available accessible web based application that makes multimedia web resources (e.g. podcasts) easier to ac...
—Hadoop is a popular open-source implementation of MapReduce for the analysis of large datasets. To manage storage resources across the cluster, Hadoop uses a distributed user-le...