The venerable problem solving technique of simulation finds itself inthe midstof a revolution. Where once it was regarded as a "technique of last resort" for systems ana...
Richard M. Weatherly, Annette L. Wilson, Bradford ...
Clusters of commodity machines have become a popular way of building cheap high performance parallel computers. Many of these designs rely on standard Ethernet networks as a syste...
Francis Vaughan, Duncan A. Grove, Paul D. Coddingt...
This paper describes a highly available distributedvideo on demand (VoD) service which is inherently fault tolerant. The VoD service is provided by multiple servers that reside at...
Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...