By providing direct data transfer between storage and client, network-attached storage devices have the potential to improve scalability for existing distributed file systems (by...
Garth A. Gibson, David Nagle, Khalil Amiri, Fay W....
Rural Internet kiosks in developing regions can cost-effectively provide communication and e-governance services to the poorest sections of society. A variety of technical and no...
Shimin Guo, Mohammad Hossein Falaki, Earl A. Olive...
— Grid infrastructures are in operation around the world, federating an impressive collection of computational resources and a wide variety of application software. In this conte...
Asterios Katsifodimos, George Pallis, Marios D. Di...
Hermes is a middleware system for design and execution of activity-based applications in distributed environments. It supports mobile computation as an application implementation s...
Public-key cryptography can uniquely enable trust within distributed settings. Employing it usually requires deploying a set of tools and services collectively known as a public k...