Abstract. Our work focuses on distributed software services and their requirements in terms of system performance and dependability. We target the problem of finding optimal deploy...
Electronic banking (e-banking), facilitated by various Electronic Commerce (EC) technologies, has helped commercial banks to stay competitive through productivity gains, transacti...
Dedicated computing clusters are typically sized based on an expected average workload over a period of years, rather than on peak workloads, which might exist for relatively shor...
Michael Mattess, Christian Vecchiola, Rajkumar Buy...
The recent emergence of clouds is making the vision of utility computing realizable, i.e. computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities su...
Hadoop is a reference software framework supporting the Map/Reduce programming model. It relies on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as its primary storage system. Althoug...