This paper presents a machine configuration system which stores all configuration parameters in a central ``database''. The system is dynamic in the sense that machines ...
Traditional distributed file systems do not provide clusters with strict single-system image, and cannot fully meet the cluster applications requirements, such as I/O performance,...
Several real-time Linux extensions are available nowadays. Two of those extensions that have received special attention recently are Preempt-RT and Xenomai. This paper evaluates t...
Multi-tier architectures are widely used by internet applications. Guaranteeing the performance, and more generally the quality of service (QoS), of such applications remains a cr...
In an open distributed system, computational resources are peer-owned, and distributed over time and space. The fact that these resources can dynamically join or leave the system (...