Abstract In this paper we investigate the composition of cheap network storage resources to meet specific availability and capacity requirements. We show that the problem of find...
The scale at which scientific data is produced will undergo a massive change in the near future. Many sophisticated scientific discovery laboratories or the installation of sensor...
The world wide web is the largest source for all kind of information currently available. Due to its enormous size retrieving relevant information is a difficult task for which us...
We describe a technique called lookaside caching that combines the strengths of distributed file systems and portable storage devices, while negating their weaknesses. In spite of...
Niraj Tolia, Jan Harkes, Michael Kozuch, Mahadev S...
Despite the increasing availability of groupware, most systems are awkward and not widely used. While there are many reasons for this, a significant problem is that groupware is di...