PC-clusters with high performance/cost ratio have been one of the typical platforms for high performance computing. To lower costs, Gigabit Ethernet is often used for intercommuni...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) pose challenges not present in classical distributed systems: resource limitations, high failure rates, and ad hoc deployment. The lossy nature of w...
This paper presents BCube, a new network architecture specifically designed for shipping-container based, modular data centers. At the core of the BCube architecture is its serve...
Chuanxiong Guo, Guohan Lu, Dan Li, Haitao Wu, Xuan...
In the next five years, the number of processors in high-end systems for scientific computing is expected to rise to tens and even hundreds of thousands. For example, the IBM Blu...
Intrusion-tolerant replication enables the construction of systems that tolerate a finite number of malicious faults. An arbitrary number of faults can be tolerated during system ...