Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...
Wux is a port of Unix tools to the Microsoft Windows environment. It is based on a library providing a Unixcompatible set of system calls on top of Windows. Unix-derived tools run...
Inferno is an operating system well suited to applications that need to be portable, graphical, and networked. This paper describes the fundamental
oating point facilities of the...
- Many peer-to-peer file sharing systems have been proposed to take the locality and heterogeneity into account. The two-layered architecture is one of the most widespread systems ...
IT today is driven by the trend of increasing scale and complexity. Utility and Grid computing models, PlanetLab, and traditional data centers, are reaching the scale of thousands...