Dependable distributed systems are difficult to build. This is particularly true if they have dependability requirements that change during the execution of an application, and are...
Michel Cukier, Jennifer Ren, Chetan Sabnis, David ...
This paper explores the feasibility of a cost-efficient storage architecture that offers the reliability and access performance characteristics of a high-end system. This architec...
Biomolecular simulations produce more output data than can be managed effectively by traditional computing systems. Researchers need distributed systems that allow the pooling of...
Justin M. Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, Aa...
Web caching is an important technology for reducing Internet access latency, alleviating network traffic, and spreading server load. An important issue that affects the performa...
The Hadoop filesystem is a large scale distributed filesystem used to manage and quickly process extremely large data sets. We want to utilize Hadoop to assist with dataintensive ...