Modern peer-to-peer file sharing systems distribute large files among peers using block partitioning. Blocks can be redistributed by a peer even before the whole file is available...
Christian Ortolf, Christian Schindelhauer, Arne Va...
We describe our experiences with the Chubby lock service, which is intended to provide coarse-grained locking as well as reliable (though low-volume) storage for a loosely-coupled...
On-Demand Computing fulfills the need of computing availability at limited hardware and software costs. Distributed systems of this kind typically store user files in a shared ...
Fabio Dellutri, Salvatore Di Blasi, Giuseppe F. It...
Aiming at improving file download speed, existing large-scale P2P content distribution systems substantially employ a multi-source parallel downloading scheme to allow peers servi...
Scientific applications often need to access remote file systems. Because of slow networks and large data size, however, remote I/O can become an even more serious performance bot...
Jonghyun Lee, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur, Xiaos...