We present Ensemble, a message-passing implementation methodology, applied to PVM. Ensemble overcomes problems and complexities in developing applications in messagepassing enviro...
Server applications with adaptive behaviors can adapt their functionality in response to environmental changes, and significantly reduce the on-going costs of system deployment an...
In an increasingly popular model of software distribution, software is developed in one computing environment and deployed in other environments by transfer over the internet. Ext...
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...
A problem with many distributed applications is their behavior in lieu of unpredictable variations in user request volumes or in available resources. This paper explores a performa...