We present a detailed characterization of instruction cache performance for IBM’s J2EE-enabled web server, WebSphere Application Server (WAS). When running two J2EE benchmarks o...
Priya Nagpurkar, Harold W. Cain, Mauricio J. Serra...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing applications generate a large part if not most of today's Internet traffic. The large volume of this traffic (thus the high potential benefits...
Adam Wierzbicki, Nathaniel Leibowitz, Matei Ripean...
Single sign-on is critical for the usability of distributed systems. While there are several authentication mechanisms which support single sign-on (e.g. Kerberos and X.509), it m...
In a large-scale information system such as a digital library or the web, a set of distributed caches can improve their effectiveness by coordinating their data placement decisions...
This paper introduces volume leases as a mechanism for providing cache consistency for large-scale, geographically distributed networks. Volume leases are a variation of leases, w...
Jian Yin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahlin, Calvin L...