Chain replication is a new approach to coordinating clusters of fail-stop storage servers. The approach is intended for supporting large-scale storage services that exhibit high t...
Cloud computing has attracted a great deal of attention in both academia and industry. We envision the provision of differentiated services as being one of the key components to th...
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are an increasingly popular class of real-time interactive distributed applications that require scalable architectures and parallelizat...
We describe the lockingarchitecture of a new operating system, HURRICANE, designed for large scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Many papers already describe kernel lockingtechni...
Ronald C. Unrau, Orran Krieger, Benjamin Gamsa, Mi...
We present a policy-based architecture STEPS for lifecycle management (LCM) in a mass scale distributed file system. The STEPS architecture is designed in the context of IBM’s ...
Akshat Verma, David Pease, Upendra Sharma, Marc Ka...