Some popular computing technologies, such as ubiquitous computing, grid computing and thin-client computing, bring people to a much more distributed and pervasive computing enviro...
One of the challenges in large scale distributed computing is to utilize the thousands of idle personal computers. In this paper, we present a system that enables users to e ortles...
Charging of services in a distributed system will become more and more important for systems which are utilized commercially. Such an important distributed system exists in form o...
Burkhard Stiller, Jan Gerke, Placi Flury, Peter Re...
Modern virtual machines, such as Java and Inferno, are emerging as network computing s. While these virtual machines provide higher-level abstractions and more sophisticated servi...
Modern scientific computing involves organizing, moving, visualizing, and analyzing massive amounts of data from around the world, as well as employing large-scale computation. The...
Brian Tierney, William E. Johnston, Jason Lee, Mar...