In a distributed system where scalability is an issue, like in a GRID [5], the problem of enforcing mutual exclusion often arises in a soft form: the infrequent failure of the mut...
Today’s large-scale distributed systems consist of collections of nodes that have highly variable availability — a phenomenon sometimes called churn. This availability variati...
This paper presents a high-level approach for assessing the performance behavior of complex scientific applications running on a high-performance system through simulation. The pr...
Thomas Fahringer, Nicola Mazzocca, Massimiliano Ra...
Failures of any type are common in current datacenters, partly due to the higher scales of the data stored. As data scales up, its availability becomes more complex, while differe...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...
Abstract—For a complex distributed system to be dependable, it must be continuously monitored, so that its failures and imperfections can be discovered and corrected in a timely ...
Constantin Serban, Wenxuan Zhang, Naftaly H. Minsk...