Large grid installations require global access to massive data stores. Parallel file systems give high throughput within a LAN, but cross-site data transfers lack seamless integra...
Of the many P2P file-sharing prototypes in existence, BitTorrent is one of the few that has managed to attract millions of users. BitTorrent relies on other (global) components f...
Johan A. Pouwelse, Pawel Garbacki, Dick H. J. Epem...
This paper describes the behavior observed in a class of cellular automata that we have defined as "dissipative", i.e., cellular automata for which the external environm...
IPCHINOOK is a design tool for distributed embedded systems. It gains leverage from the use of a carefully chosen set of design ions that raise the level of designer interaction d...
Pai H. Chou, Ross B. Ortega, Ken Hines, Kurt Partr...
In this paper, we argue for the power of providing a common set of OS services to wide area applications, including mechanisms for resource discovery, a global namespace, remote p...
Amin Vahdat, Thomas E. Anderson, Michael Dahlin, E...