Single System Image (SSI) Distributed Operating Systems have been the subject of increasing interest in recent years. This interest has been fueled primarily by the trend towards ...
Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) systems provide a logically shared memory over physically distributed memory to enable parallel computation on Networks of Workstations (NOWs). In ...
Workstation clusters are becoming an interesting alternative to dedicated multiprocessors. In this environment, the probability of a failure, during an application's executio...
Distributed applications are often built from sets of distributed components that must be co-ordinated in order to achieve some global behaviour. The common approach is to use a c...
Queueing network models have been extensively applied to represent and analyze resource sharing systems such as communication and computer systems and they have proved to be a pow...