The Rocks toolkit [9], [7], [10] uses a graph-based framework to describe the configuration of all node types (termed appliances) that make up a complete cluster. With hundreds of...
Greg Bruno, Mason J. Katz, Federico D. Sacerdoti, ...
Grids allow large scale resource-sharing across different administrative domains. Those diverse resources are likely to join or quit the Grid at any moment or possibly to break dow...
Francesc Guim, Ivan Rodero, M. Tomas, Julita Corba...
Chip Multi-Threaded (CMT) processors provide support for many simultaneous hardware threads of execution in various ways, including Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) and Chip Mult...
As high performance clusters continue to grow in size, the mean time between failure shrinks. Thus, the issues of fault tolerance and reliability are becoming one of the challengi...
1 Challenges of scale have limited the development of event notification systems with strong properties, despite the urgent demand for consistency, reliability, security, and other...
Ken Birman, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Krzysztof Ostrow...