Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) middleware increasingly offers not only functional support for standard interfaces, but also the ability to optimize their resource consumption pat...
Building dependable distributed systems using ad hoc methods is a challenging task. Without proper support, an application programmer must face the daunting requirement of having ...
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Metacomputing frameworks have received renewed attention of late, fueled both by advances in hardware and networking, and by novel concepts such as computational grids. However the...
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Organizations have become increasingly dependent on computing systems to achieve their business goals. The performance of these systems in terms of response times and cost has a m...
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Load balancing is the process of distributing client requests over a set of servers, and is a key element of obtaining good performance in a distributed application. Java RMI exte...