— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...
Power-proportional cluster-based storage is an important component of an overall cloud computing infrastructure. With it, substantial subsets of nodes in the storage cluster can b...
Hrishikesh Amur, James Cipar, Varun Gupta, Gregory...
In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of available computing and storage resources. Yet few have been able to exploit these resources in an aggregated ...
James Frey, Todd Tannenbaum, Miron Livny, Ian T. F...
Active storage clouds are an attractive platform for executing large data intensive workloads found in many fields of science. However, active storage presents new system managem...
Abstract. Dependable distributed applications require flexible infrastructure support for controlled redundancy, replication, and recovery of components and services. However, mos...