Non-determinism of the thread schedule is a well-known problem in concurrent programming. However, other sources of non-determinism exist which cannot be controlled by an applicati...
PC-clusters with high performance/cost ratio have been one of the typical platforms for high performance computing. To lower costs, Gigabit Ethernet is often used for intercommuni...
Abstract. Dependable distributed applications require flexible infrastructure support for controlled redundancy, replication, and recovery of components and services. However, mos...
—As an effective approach to maintain software system without interrupting the service, online migration has been applied for many goals, e.g. achieving a higher system performan...
As peer-to-peer (P2P) networks become more familiar to the database community, intense interest has built up in using their scalability and resilience properties to scale database...