Fast Internet connections and the widespread use of high performance graphic cards are making Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) systems very common nowadays. However, there are...
As the Internet and enterprise wide distributed systems become more prevalent in business IT systems, numerous advanced COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) middleware technologies hav...
In cluster-based storage systems, the metadata server cluster must be able to adaptively distribute responsibility for metadata to maintain high system performance and long-term l...
A popular trend in current software technology is to gain program portability by compiling programs to an inte form based on an abstract machine definition. Such approaches date b...
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...