In developing a distributed file system, there are several good reasons for implementing the client file cache manager as a user-level process. These include ease of implementatio...
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Grid computing is becoming an important framework for enabling applications to utilize widely distributed collections of computational and data resources, however current grid sof...
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Within the field of cultural heritage restoration, experts are interested in the analysis of data describing the condition and history of ancient monuments. Data are usually distr...
To cope with the explosive increase in the number of requests to Internet server systems, one popular solution is a load-balancing technique that uses a dispatcher in the front-en...
Extensible systems, such as Java or the SPIN extensible operating system, allow for units of code, or extensions, to be added to a running system in almost arbitrary fashion. Exte...