Connected world-widely distributed computers and data systems establish a global source of processing power and data, called a grid. Key properties of a grid are the fact that com...
— One of the key reasons overlay networks are seen as an excellent platform for large scale distributed systems is their resilience in the presence of node failures. This resilie...
Shelley Zhuang, Dennis Geels, Ion Stoica, Randy H....
Scalability of clusters and MPPs is typically discussed in terms of limits on growth: something which grows at a rate of O(log p) (where p is the number of processors) is said to ...
Supporting high availability by checkpointing and switching to a backup upon failure of a primary has a cost. Trade-off studies help system architects to decide whether higher ava...
Abstract. We present a compositional approach to the implementation of hard real-time software running on a distributed platform. We explain how several code suppliers, coordinated...
Thomas A. Henzinger, Christoph M. Kirsch, Slobodan...