— It is well-understood that increasing redundancy in a system generally improves the availability and dependability of the system. In server clusters, one important form of redu...
There is a need to be able to program network components to adapt to application requirements for quality of service, specialised application dependent routing, to increase effici...
An Operational Information System (OIS) supports a real-time view of an organization’s information critical to its logistical business operations. A central component of an OIS ...
- The emergence of high-speed networks, Grid Computing, Service-Oriented Architectures, and an ever increasing ambient connection to mobile Internet has enabled an underpinning inf...
— The nature of Grid and distributed computing implies communication between heterogeneous systems over a wide and ever-changing variety of network environments. Often large amou...
John Bresnahan, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Ian T. Foster