The Peer-to-Peer (p2p) and Grid infrastructure communities are tackling an overlapping set of problems. In addressing these problems, p2p solutions are usually motivated by elegan...
Jonathan Ledlie, Jeffrey Shneidman, Margo I. Seltz...
The continuous increase of computational power has made viable the implementation of more and more sophisticated virtualization techniques. The use of virtualization in cluster env...
Roberto Canonico, Pasquale Di Gennaro, Vittorio Ma...
Evaluating the usability of an application is a crucial activity in systems development projects. It is often done collaboratively, involving groups of current or future users, us...
Gert-Jan de Vreede, Ann L. Fruhling, Anita Chakrap...
Success of peer-to-peer applications in many cases is attributed to user altruism, where a user contributes some of its own resources to facilitate performance of other users. Thi...
The applicability of network-based computing depends on the availability of the underlying network bandwidth. However, network resources are shared and the available network bandw...