Fred Brooks’ retelling of the biblical story of the Tower of Babel offers many insights into what makes building software difficult. The difficulty, according to common interp...
Weakly consistent replication of data has become increasingly important both for loosely-coupled collections of personal devices and for large-scale infrastructure services. Unfor...
Prince Mahajan, Ramakrishna Kotla, Catherine C. Ma...
Debugging real systems is hard, requires deep knowledge of the code, and is time-consuming. Bug reports rarely provide sufficient information, thus forcing developers to turn int...
In this paper we present an analytical-based framework for parallel program performance prediction. The main thrust of this work is to provide a means for treating realistic appli...
' The coming of giga-bit networks makes possible the realization ofa single nationwide virtual computer comprised of a variety of geographically distributed highpe6ormance mac...