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FGCS
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
The wandering token: Congestion avoidance of a shared resource
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...
Augusto Ciuffoletti
SRDS
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
AVCast : New Approaches For Implementing Availability-Dependent Reliability for Multicast Receivers
Today’s large-scale distributed systems consist of collections of nodes that have highly variable availability — a phenomenon sometimes called churn. This availability variati...
Thadpong Pongthawornkamol, Indranil Gupta
PDP
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Performance Modeling of Scientific Applications: Scalability Analysis of LAPW0
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...
CLOUD
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A self-organized, fault-tolerant and scalable replication scheme for cloud storage
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...
COLCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A decentralized mechanism for application level monitoring of distributed systems
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...