Service providers of the future could dynamically negotiate for, and create their infrastructure on Grid based utility computing and communication providers. Such commercialisatio...
In addition to providing small mean response times, modern applications seek to provide users predictable service and, in some cases, Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In order...
Funded as part of the `Network Enabled Platforms' program the Health Services Virtual Organization (HSVO) Project has developed a network-enabled platform (NEP) consisting of...
Rachel H. Ellaway, Jeremy R. Cooperstock, Bruce Sp...
In a chip-multiprocessor (CMP) system, the DRAM system is shared among cores. In a shared DRAM system, requests from a thread can not only delay requests from other threads by cau...
Upgrading the software of long-lived distributed systems is difficult. It is not possible to upgrade all the nodes in a system at once, since some nodes may be down and halting t...